Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A Nigerian Navy soldier was killed, another wounded and several militants were feared dead following a clash between soldiers and suspected militants along the Bonny River in the oil producing Niger Delta region early Monday, Police said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes on Saturday voiced concern over the plight of those forced to flee their homes following violence that erupted after Kenya's disputed presidential vote last December. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Kenyan Member of Parliament, Gitobu Imanyara, admitted here Monday that he was viciously assaulted and injured by Kenya's First Lady, Lucy Kibaki, at the State House, where he had been invited to a meeting by President Mwai Kibaki. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A gun duel between suspected militants and soldiers in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta region at the weekend left three navy soldiers and 8 militants dead and several others injured, military sources said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Gunmen suspected to be militants attacked a boat build ing company, Almarine, at its base in the Borokiri area of the oil city of Port Harcourt overnight Tuesday, wounding one person and taking away some of the equipment at the base, police said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A Nigerian fishing firm has accused Nigerian Navy soldiers of killing one of its employees and arresting three others, disputing a navy statement that it killed one suspected militant and arrested three during a clash in the Andoni River, in the restive oil producing Niger Delta region, Sunday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Gunmen on Monday attacked a vessel carrying supplies to the Mystra oil platform, off the coast of Bonny in Rivers state, Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region, but casualty details are not yet available, police said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The main militant group in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region has made a fresh offer of ceasefire to the Nigerian government, if a man widely believed to be one of its leaders is released from detention in Angola. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- An explosion on a vessel discharging fuel at the Abonnema wharf in Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt Friday morning has raised fears that some crew members and workmen may have been killed or injured, police said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Niger Delta's main militants have re-stated the threat they issued earlier in the year to carry out an attack that will disrupt the world oil market, while claiming responsibility for the 'harassment' of four vessels belonging to some oil companies along the Bonny River in the oil region Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Nearly 500 people have been killed and a quarter of a million internally displaced in election-related violence following the controversial 27 December presidential election in Kenya, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Special Programmes Rachel Arunga said here Monday as the government announced the formation of a committee to co-ordinate humanitarian assistance to affected people. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian military has warned the Niger Delta's main militant group against carrying out its plan to attack soldiers deployed to the restive oil region to protect life and property, promising a tough response in the event such attacks are carried out. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The violence in Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta region, which has helped to push the price of crude oil to the US$100 mark, seems set to worsen in the new year, after the region's main militants threatened to unleash a ''bloody fight in 2008'' to paralyse ''100 per cent of Nigeria's oil export''. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The United Nations peacekeeping operations in the Greater Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region have seriously been hampered by the on-going political crisis in Kenya following post-electoral violence, a ranking UN official said on Wednesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ghanaian President John Agyekum Kufuor was headed for Nairobi Wednesday at the head of a delegation of the African Union (AU) for talks with Kenya's political leaders, following widespread violence that was sparked by results of last week's presidential election. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- At least 13 people were killed after violent attacks in a church in Eldoret town where displaced residents were taking refuge following a series of violent protests that followed last week's presidential elections. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The number of people who were killed in the New Year dawn attack on two police stations and one hotel in Port Harcourt, capital of Nigeria's oil state of Rivers, by suspected militants has risen to 12, four of them policemen, according to the state police authorities. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Suspected militants have killed four policemen in a New Year dawn attack on two police stations in Borokiri and Trans-Amadi areas of Port Harcourt, capital of Nigeria's oil state of Rivers, the state's police commissioner, Felix Ogbaudu, said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- In the spirit of Christmas, the largest militant group in Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta region has declared a 24-hour ceasefire, during which all attacks and kidnappings will stop. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- A 16-day campaign against gender-based violence (GBV) has started in Sierra Leone, according to a statement issued by the United Nations system here at the weekend. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- More than 96% of the violence against Moroccan women are committed by their husbands, a survey by the Democratic Human Rights' League (L D DH), issued here Sunday, has revealed. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- A sixteen days campaign against gender based violence (GBV) has started in Sierra Leone. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's largest militant group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), said Friday it was maintaining a "wait and see'' attitude over Nigeria's request for the extradition of one of its leaders to face trial for alleged gun-running. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Peace is gradually returning to Nigeria's northern state of Kano, after several days of violence triggered by the outcome of the local council election in the state. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) – At least five persons were- feared dead and many others injured in separate violent clashes in Nigeria's Southwestern Ogun and Midwestern Edo states Thursday, the local press reported Friday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The violence in Rivers state in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region flared again Thursday when suspected cultists killed three community chiefs in a revenge attack, the local press reported Friday. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua hinted Sunday the federal government and the militants fighting for a better deal for the oil producing Niger Delta region might soon reach an agreement that would end violence in the region. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has expressed concern over tensions and increased violence that have seemingly characterised political activities in Sierra Leone where a runoff presidential poll is scheduled 8 September. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua has said his administration will not impose emergency rule in Rivers, where gangs and bandits have been on rampage in recent times. Full text...

province Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Some 5,470 cases of sexual violence have been reported between January and June 2007 in South-Kivu province of the DR Congo, according to reports by the local commission on sexual violence. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The week-long, night-time curfew imposed on Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt last week to stem rising violence in the city has been extended by another week, according to the Southern Rivers state government. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and elder statesman Anthony Enahoro are to mediate in the Niger Delta crisis, which has slashed Nigeria's oil production and created panic among expatriate workers in the oil region. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Soldiers deployed to the Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt, which has been rocked by violence in the past few weeks, will remain there for the next six months, according to Southern Rivers state Governor Celestine Omehia. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A joint team of soldiers from the three services, state security service and the police has launched a major operation to smoke out the criminal gangs that terrorized Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt last week, killing over 30 people. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria's military authori-ties have launched a probe into the source of arms inflow into the oil-producing Niger Delta region, which has been wracked by violence in recent times. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- About 20 people, including four policemen and one security guard, were feared to have been killed Saturday, the worst day of the gang violence that has sparked panic in Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Two anti-riot policemen and one security guard were killed Saturday in Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt, bringing the overall death toll in one week of cult violence in the city to 14, the police said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) – Some firms in Nigeria's oi-l city of Port Harcourt, regarded as the epicentre of the violence in the oil-producing Niger Delta region, have curtailed their activities as a precaution to escape the rampaging violence in the town, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- A presidential panel of inquiry into bloody clashes last Monday between Liberian police and security forces at the Freeport of Monrovia has recommended the dismissal of Police Inspector General, Beatrice Munah-Sieh in an eight-count recommendation. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) – The plane carrying- Ivorian Prime Minister, Guillaume Soro, was Friday morning shot at while landing at the Bouaké international airport, central Côte d'Ivoire, according to official sources here. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's outlawed Mungiki sect members have responded to Thursday's imprisonment of their "spiritual" leader Maina Njenga by killing 12 people in the nation's capital Nairobi and Kiambu district in the Central Province, police have said. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- An average of 74% of Moroccan women suffer domestic violence, says a report on gender-based violence issued Thursday in Rabat. Full text...

Bangui- Central African Republic (PANA) -- The Central African (CAR) government is to take legal action against the country's rebel People's Army for the Restoration of Democracy, APRD, over the killing of Elsa Serfass, an employee of the aid group (Doctors Without Borders) Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), official sources said here. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan police have killed three more suspected members of the outlawed Mungiki sect, with the European Union (EU) blaming the Nairobi government for failing to stop the violence that has killed more than 40 people in the last four days. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Eleven people were reported killed Thursday in Nairobi's Mathare slums as police and paramilitary units battled suspected outlawed Kenyan Mungiki sect members linked with the beheading of people across the country. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya faces an imminent economic crisis because of spiralling violent crimes in the capital Nairobi, and parts of the Central Province, Culture and National Heritage Minister, Suleiman Shakombo warned here Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Five persons were feared killed, property worth millions of naira destroyed and hundreds of people rendered homeless in a communal clash in the Quaan Pan Council of Nigeria's central Plateau state, the local press reported Friday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least 10 persons were feared dead and valuable property razed or vandalised in elections-related violence in Nigeria's South-west Oyo state Thursday, the local press reported. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Hoodlums Tuesday ransacked the popular Oshodi market/bus stop in the suburb of Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos, burning vehicles and buildings and injuring many people, eyewitnesses said. Full text...