Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A clash between supporters of two rival parties have left at least three dead and over 20 others injured in Nigeria's commercial capital city of Lagos, ahead of Saturday's state legislative and governorship polls, the local press reported Thursday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Just a few days to crucial general elections in Nigeria, five persons were killed in a clash between two rival party supporters in the South-west city of Ibadan, the local press reported Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Thirteen members of parliament from the expansive Rift Valley Province Tuesday took the Kenya government to task over its inability to end ethnic clashes in Mount Elgon Region in which over 150 people have lost their lives since last year, according to the local media Wednesday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare Friday strongly condemned the clashes that have been taking place in the DR Congo (DRC) and urged the authorities there to create conducive conditions for the peaceful resolution of the crisis. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least four people have been reported dead following Thursday's violence from a long-standing land dispute in the Lekki-Ajah area on the outskirts of Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Five persons were killed and 15 others injured as a 47-year-old land dispute erupted in Nigeria's South-west city of Ikare-Akoko, the local media reported Thursday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The secretary-general of the Libyan charity association Watassimou, Dr Aicha Mouammar Kadhafi, late Wednesday in Tripoli, launched a project to sensitise citizens against violence on women. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Suspected political thugs invaded a court in session in Nigeria's northern state of Gombe, attacked the presiding Magistrate with machete and forcibly freed a governorship candidate standing trial for political violence, the local press reported Wednesday. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- A political violence between supporters of two of Nigeria's biggest parties has left 10 persons dead and over 30 houses razed in Buruku local council in central Benue state, according to the state police command spokesman, Samuel Jinadu. Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) – South Africa's Angl-ican Archbishop, Desmond Tutu, who is on a visit here Saturday denounced the attitude by African leaders towards President Robert Mugabe, saying they should instead be ashamed of police repression on opposition leadership in Zimbabwe. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition has slammed the arrest of at least 110 political and civic activists by Zimbabwean police on Sunday following plans to hold a prayer rally organised by the Christian Alliance under the banner of the Save Zimbabwe Campaign. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's opposition Action Congress (AC) has condemned the growing violence in the south-western Ogun state, ahead of April's general elections in the country. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Soldiers and anti-riot policemen were deployed to the streets of Nigeria's South-west city of Abeokuta Saturday, following a clash between supporters of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the opposition All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in the city, according to a local radio station. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Rape in Mauritania, female genital mutilation in Kenya, domestic violence in Mexico and Romania, and child marriage in Bangladesh, are some of the major abuses against women and girls listed in a new UN Population Fund report released in New York Monday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Violence between two neighbouring communities in Ogoniland, in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region, claimed at least 10 more lives at the weekend, raising the total death toll to over a dozen since the crisis started last Tuesday, the local press reported Sunday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Gunmen attacked a guard post manned by Nigerian soldiers deployed to the restive Niger Delta, killing two of them, injuring another and escaping with the soldiers' rifles, the local press reported Friday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Pope Benedict XVI has appealed for respect of human and civil rights in Guinea where anti-government protests have killed at least 100 people and forced ailing President Lansana Conte to impose a state of siege on the troubled country. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian branch of an intetnational NGO, Study and Research Group on Democracy and Development, has called for an international commission of enquiry to bring to justice "the authors of crimes against humanity" in the past one month in Guinea. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Union (EU) Thursday expressed grave concern over the deteriorating political situation in Guinea, especially the repression of individual rights and liberties following the state of siege declared on Monday by ailing President Lansana Conte. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Mali's African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence, SADI, Monday strongly condemned the suppression of street demonstrations in neighbouring Guinea. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Eight people were reportedly killed and many vehicles vandalised in Nigeria's southern Rivers state after Saturday's primaries to elect state Houses of Assembly candidates for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the local media reported Sunday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- France will support South African legendary singer Miriam Makeba's humanitarian project in the form of special centres to assist women victims of violence in her country, French Social Affairs Minister Catherine Vautrin has said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Leaders of Kenya's opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), Friday visited the clash-torn Mathare slums in the nation's capital Nairobi, and called for urgent government action to stem the violence and ensure public security. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- There was an uneasy calm in Niangon suburb of Abidjan after elements of the Organisation of Patriots for Peace (GPP) clashed with some residents there last Wednesday, leaving five persons dead and several others wounded. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least three persons were feared killed and many others injured Saturday as violence marred the ward congresses of Nigeria's ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in some parts of the country, the local press reported Sunday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Filmmakers from around the African continent are being invited to submit their films and documentaries for a film festival devoted to ending violence against women in Africa. Full text...

Jos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Governor Joshua Dariye of Nigeria's central Plateau State Friday called for the removal of the State Police Commissioner, Ibiyinka Kayode, after a riot in the capital, Jos, left one person dead and another seriously injured. Full text...

Jos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Armed policemen Friday opened fire on protesters in Jos, capital of Nigeria's central Plateau state, killing one person and injuring at least one other as the political crisis in the state took another turn, eyewitnesses said. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- About 10,000 cases of domestic violence against women were recorded in Mozambique between June 2005 and this month, according to Graca Julio, Coordinator of the Women's Forum, a coalition of NGOs working on women's rights. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The main militant group in Nigeria's oil- producing Niger Delta region said Thursday it planned to attack military and oil installations in the southern Rivers state in retaliation for a military raid on a community in the state. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least five soldiers from the joint task force deployed in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region were killed and several others, including 25 civilian contractors of Shell, declared missing Monday, following a clash between the military and militants at Bilie, in south-eastern Rivers State, military sources said Tuesday. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- Chairman Joمo Vaz Mané of the Human Rights League in Guinea-Bissau, has denounced violence and human rights violations in the country, warning that the fear of war still tormented the inhabitants. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) – In his double capacity- as current chairman of the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC), Congolese president Denis Sassou Nguesso has "strongly condemned" the exchange of gunfire in Kinshasa before and after the publication of results of the 30 July presidential and parliamentary elections. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya, which continues to respect all accords signed during various Arab summits and conferences concerning the Somali peace process, was working relentlessly for an end to further violence in that country, an official source at the External Relations and International Co-operation ministry has reiterated. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Two policemen and four civilians were killed after suspected members of the separatist Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) stormed a police station in Nnewi in Nigeria's southeast Anambra state at the weekend setting the station alight, the local media reported Monday. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius Wednesday- condemned the "disproportionate" use of military force by Israel in Lebanon and Palestine, while respecting the right of any country to defend itself. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Sierra Leone's Youth and Sports Minister Dennis Bright, has condemned recent acts of violence by youths in the country and called on students in tertiary institutions to be law abiding and shun the culture of violence. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The government of Nigeria's southeastern state of Anambra has extended to six other towns the nighttime curfew it imposed on the state's commercial city of Onitsha, which has been wracked by violence since last Thursday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Governor Peter Obi of Nigeria's southeast Anambra state has issued a shoot-at-sight order to security agents after a night-time curfew failed to stem days of violence which has left at least 12 persons dead in the state's commercial city of Onitsha, the state-run Radio Nigeria reported. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The government of Nigeria's southern state of Anambra has imposed a night-time curfew on the state's economic city of Onitsha, after days of violence left at least 12 dead. Full text...

Port Moresby- Papua New Guinea (PANA) -- Ministers from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States meeting here Wednesday called on the government and people of East Timor to amicably resolve their political problems in the country. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Africa needs effective leadership in all segments of society to ensure the rights and a better future of its children, former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano said here Thursday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Physical, psychological and sexual violence against girls persists as a pernicious problem in Africa because of the influence of traditional values negating human rights and the extreme deprivation in families, a study by advocates of child rights in the continent has found. Full text...

Ijebu-Ode- Nigeria (PANA) -- A total of seven persons were feared to have died in a turf fight which broke out at the weekend between rival youth groups in Ijebu-Ode in Nigeria's southwest Ogun state, eyewitness accounts said Monday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region have launched another car bomb attack near a refinery in the region, while warning China to desist from its impending investment in the country's oil sector. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Over 100 people, including security officials, have died and property worth millions of naira destroyed after four days of inter-ethnic clashes in Namu town in Quaan Pan local council area of Nigeria's northern Plateau state, the local media reported Thursday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The Torch of Peace, lit last November during the launch of the 16 Days of Activism against violence on women and children, has arrived in Cape Town. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) – A French national in c-harge of the security of the Congolese Sugar Company (Saris) in Nyaki was killed in a hold-up attempt by an armed gang, Congolese national radio reported here Friday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian government Friday warned troublemakers against fresh violence in the country, following the cartoon riots in several cities that killed some 100 people and displaced thousands over the past two weeks. Full text...

Syrte- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Kadhafi has expressed 'deep regrets' over violent acts by demonstrators at the Italian consulate in Benghazi and the Italian Office in Tobrouk, both in the north-east of the country, over a fortnight ago. Full text...