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...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The UN Mission in DR Congo (MONUC) has expressed concern over the escalation of sexual violence against women in parts of the country, particularly central Maniema. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A clash between youths from two neighbouring streets in Ijora Badiya area of Nigeria's economic capital city of Lagos left one dead and 30 wooden houses razed Monday, media reports said Tuesday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya has decided to rebuild the important Shia shrine of Samarra in Iraq whose dome was blown out by a bomb blast, an official source said in Tripoli Thursday night. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's southeastern city of Onitsha was calm Friday after days of violence sparked off by protest in the Muslim north over the publication of caricatures of Prophet Muhammed in a number of European countries. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The death toll has climbed to 100 after two days of violence in Nigeria's southeastern city of Onitsha, where bands of rioters Wednesday stormed a prison and freed all 585 inmates, local press reports said Thursday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Tension remained high Wednesday in Nigeria's largely Christian south-eastern city of Onitsha, which is under a night-time curfew after Tuesday's violence left at least 20 people dead and many others injured, residents said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- African women still faced gender-specific violations of their human rights and reproductive rights due to continuing armed conflicts across the continent, Kenyan Assistant Gender, Sports and Culture Minister Alicen Chellaite said here on Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The government of Nigeria's southeastern Anambra state has imposed a nighttime curfew on the city of Onitsha following the violence that swept through the city Tuesday, leaving many people dead and property worth millions destroyed. Full text...

Bauchi- Nigeria (PANA) -- The death toll in Monday's sectarian violence in Nigeria's northern city of Bauchi has risen to 16, according to the Nigeria Red Cross (NRC). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Protests over the cartoon of the Prophet Muhammed, seemed to be spreading in northern Nigeria with clashes between Muslim youths and the police in the city of Bauchi Monday, eyewitnesses said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Calm has returned to Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri after protests over the cartoon of Prophet Muhammed claimed 16 lives and left several shops and churches burnt, according to Usman Ciroma, spokesman to the Borno state governor. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday appealed to Burundians to definitively bury violence to enable all the inhabitants of Burundi enjoy total peace and security. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Several people were injured and shops torched in Lilongwe, the Malawi capital on Tuesday as street vendors clashed with anti-riot Malawi police officers, eye-witnesses said. Full text...

Bangui- Central Africa (PANA) -- Security forces on Thursday shot and killed a woman in Gobongo after crowd had set fire to two bars owned by two close associates of President Francois Bozize of the Central African Republic (CAR) in the Gabongo residential area north of the capital, Bangui. Full text...

N'djamena- Chad (PANA) -- Clashes between students and security forces on Thursday left two people dead and many others injured, two of them seriously in Pala, 400 km southwest of the Chadian capital N'Djamena, reliable sources said here. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Deputy president Phumzile Mlambo- Ngcuka Thursday called on the South African public to wear a symbolic white ribbon for 16 days from 25 November to 10 December to show their rejection of women and child abuse. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- As preparations get underway to form an independent commission to investigate recent bloody riots in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa and parts of the country, the government has vowed it would not hesitate to take action against any persons found to have abused public trust. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The United Kingdom, the Presidency of the European Union (EU), has expressed "serious concern" at the arrest of many political party leaders and others from civil society and the media in the wake of the political crisis in Ethiopia. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- European Union and US envoys have called on the Ethiopian government and the country's opposition to settle their differences through dialogue in a joint statement issued in Addis Ababa Sunday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Armed police and troops were Saturday patrolling the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa after four days of clashes between police and opposition protesters that have reportedly killed some 40 people spread to some inland towns Friday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least three persons were killed and several vehicles burnt when two factions of an outlawed ethnic militia clashed in a suburb of Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos early Friday, the police said. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Former rebel fighters headed by pastor Frédéric Bitsamou (Ntumi) want to main dialogue with the Congolese government in spite of the fighting with government forces Wednesday in southern Brazzaville, one of the group's representatives here, Philippe Ane, told PANA here on Thursday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congolese authorities Friday decided to open a judicial inquiry into Thursday's shooting incident in Brazzaville's Bacongo residential area that left six people dead, security and public order minister General Paul Mbot said. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- A Chinese national was among six people killed during Thursday's exchange of fire between government forces and the former "Ninja" militiamen loyal to pastor Frédéric Bitsamou, alias Ntumi in northern Brazzaville's Bacongo residential area, a security source said here on Friday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's upper legislative federal chamber, the Senate, has set up an ad-hoc committee to probe Tuesday's army/police clash that killed three civilians in the nation's commercial city of Lagos. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigerian army and police are trading blames over Tuesday's Lagos clash between their men which resulted in the death of three civilians, destruction of about 50 vehicles, a police station, and the escape of 92 detainees. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Uneasy calm prevailed at the popular Ojuelegba area of Nigeria's economic capital city of Lagos Wednesday, after Tuesday's violent clash between policemen and soldiers left at least three people dead and nine others injured, according to figures from the Nigeria Red Cross. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Tuesday urged his fellow compatriots to learn from their violent history by preventing the country from slipping back into war. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Two policemen and one civilian were feared dead in clashes Tuesday here between armed police and soldiers at the popular Ojuelegba bus terminal along the city's main Ikorodu road, eyewitnesses said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Armed police and soldiers clashed in Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos Tuesday, leaving at least one building and several police vehicles burnt, eyewitnesses said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A policeman and two other persons died Sunday in Nigeria's central town of Ilorin Sunday when suspected thugs attacked the convoy of a prominent traditional chief in the city, according to local press reports. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- South African MP Storey Morutoa, has identified lack of political will by Southern African Development Community (SADC) member States, as the main obstacle to the fight against domestic violence in the sub-region. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Lazaro Mathe, governor of Mozambique's northern province of Cabo Delgado, Tuesday dismissed suggestions that last week's violence that killed at least eight people at Mocimboa da Praia, had ethnic or tribal dimension. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A communal clash in Khana local council of Nigeria's south-eastern State of Rivers has left 18 people dead and several buildings destroyed, the local press reported Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- With over 500 cases of violent trauma injuries treated in its two hospitals in the town of Galkayo in central Somalia in this year alone, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has sounded an alarm about the continuing violence in the country. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) -- A public awareness campaign aimed at collecting 50,000 signatures to combat violence in Guinea-Bissau is underway in this Portuguese-speaking West African country bedevilled by successive military coups, political instability, and armed conflicts. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian police authorities have dismissed the policeman who killed his colleague at a drinking joint in the Lagos suburb of Agege on Tuesday, according to police spokesman Olubode Ojajuni. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- Members of a Congolese ultra-nationalist political group attacked Christophe Muzungu, the Democratic Republic of Congo Culture Minister, Wednesday in Brussels, a police source told PANA Thursday in the Belgian capital. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- In a new report, the United Nations has said widespread rape was continuing in the country's war-torn western Darfur region. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- France is contributing to the strengthening of human rights in Togo, the French government said in response to criticism from Amnesty International on Paris' role vis-a-vis human rights violations in Lome during last April's presidential elections. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Amnesty International has called France to review its relations with Togo, demanding that human rights issues should be a priority in their dealings. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African Union Commission Chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare has expressed serious concern at the upsurge of tension in Guinea Bissau ahead of the second round presidential election on 24 July. Full text...