Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Ethiopian government Wednesday warned opposition parties that it would take appropriate measures without hesitation to deal with forces behind student violence. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The first Tanzania pre-election violence this year occurred Sunday in Bagamoyo, 30 km north of here when suspected members of the Civic United Front (CUF) injured five people, one of them seriously, before the start of a public rally organised by the opposition party. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Several people were injured, one of them seriously, when supporters of Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) clashed with suspected supporters of the former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) in the southern district of Machinga, DPP officials said Sunday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Supporters of Zambia's ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) and the main opposition United Party for National Development and Democracy (UPND) have clashed for control over a vacant seat in the southern Kalomo district parliamentary constituency. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Police here Monday said seven persons were killed and at least four others fatally wounded in separate incidents of violence in two suburbs of Cape Town on Saturday and Sunday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The management of the Port Harcourt refinery in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region has shut the facility after a protest by youths in the host community led to the death of one protester and the burning of a nearby police station, the local press reported Wednesday. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Togo's Human Rights League, LTDH, has rejected as "diversionary" President Faure Gnassingbe's plan to set up a national committee to investigate acts of violence during and after the country's 24 April presidential election. Full text...

Rose-Hill- Mauritius (PANA) -- Five persons were wounded when a gang of drug addicts belonging to a rival political party attacked some members of the Republican Movement (MR) following a politicl meeting in Stanley, Rose-Hill, outside Saint Louis. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The opposition Independent Democrats (ID) says the violence in Western Cape schools was "a direct result" of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) policies in housing, job creation, Black Economic Empowerment and Affirmative Action. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The two-week-old communal violence in Nigeria's central Benue state has claimed 16 lives, displaced thousands and destroyed 100 houses and farmlands, the local press reported Wednesday. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- Several human rights organizations at the on-going 37th session of the African Commission in Banjul, Thursday issued a strong statement expressing grave concern over the political situation and rights violations prior to and after the election in Togo. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Armed gunmen fatally shot a relief worker with a Swedish agency early on Monday in Mogadishu as she tried to enter a school where a team of medical staff was getting ready to offer free medical services to youngsters, the agency's spokesperson said. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) -- The Community of Portuguese- speaking Countries (CPLP) has urged the political class here to avoid any action that could trigger violence and compromise peace efforts by the government and the international community. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Hundreds of Mauritians on Sunday evening marched in the streets of Port Louis to protest the unabated cycle of violence that has engulfed the Island these days. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Ugandan women lawyers said they were ready to give the country's battered men with legal aid in their arguments against the wives who abuse them, according to a senior lawyer in Kampala, the Ugandan capital. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The UN Operation in Burundi (ONUB) has denounced the prevalence of by obscurantist practices in that troubled country, including a recent sacrifice of a 15-year-old boy by fishermen to have a good catch. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Clashes since last weekend between rival secret cult gangs in some higher institutions of learning in Nigeria's midwestern Edo state have left 11 students dead and many others injured, according to local media reports. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Armed soldiers are now patrolling the streets of Nigeria's central city of Makurdi after two days of violence that pitched angry youths against the police, following the alleged shooting dead of a bus driver by a policeman. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least three persons died and many more were injured when rival Muslim sects clashed in Nigeria's northern city of Sokoto on Wednesday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Violence against women in Algeria is assuming worrying proportions, according to a national survey spearheaded by the 'violence against women' committee of the Public Health National Institute (INSP). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Nigerian government to pursue a comprehensive strategy to tackle oil theft and stop the flow of small arms into the Niger Delta to stem the rising violence in the oil-rich region. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Uneasy calm has returned to Liberia's south-eastern coastal Maryland County following intervention by the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), but a government-imposed dusk to dawn curfew remains in place in the troubled area. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- The southeastern Liberian county of Maryland on the border with Cote d'Ivoire is under a dusk to dawn curfew, following two days of violence which has led to massive destruction of property and looting, Liberian government and UN officials said here Monday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa Thursday condemned the attacks and counter-attacks in Gaza that have claimed seven Palestinian civilians killed by the Israeli Defence Force and wounded 12 Israeli soldiers. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenyan police have dispatched a team to the northern town of Mandera to investigate Sunday's inter-clan violence that killed 11 people and injured 10 others. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Security agents brutalised six local journalists, beating one of them into a coma, as the much-awaited National Executive Committee (NEC) of Nigeria's ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got underway on Tuesday in Abuja, the country's capital. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Christmas Day celebration in Matadi, the administrative hub of Lower-Congo province (West of the DRC) was marred by mob violence as heavy rains disrupted a show hosted by Congolese music star, Koffi Olomidé and his band dubbed Quartier Latin, at the Lumumba stadium. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Six people were killed and dozens injured when opposing ruling houses clashed in a long-drawn chieftaincy dispute at Ora-Igbomina in Nigeria's southwest Osun state at the weekend, according to local newspapers reports. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Students closed down the University of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria Friday to protest the death of a student, the local press reported. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Two foreign tourists in the Kenyan coastal town of Malindi died and two others were rushed to hospital in critical conditions Sunday night after being stabbed by a fellow tourist who also took his life after the orgy. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The Convention People's Party (CPP) has called on the Ghanaian government to maintain law and order after presidential and parliamentary polls won by incumbent President John Kufuor and his New Patriotic Party (NPP). Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- About 38. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Morocco's national network of monitoring centres for women victims of violence (ANARUZ) announced Tuesday the launch of a web site on violence against women. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Two persons have been admitted to the Tamale Regional Hospital in northern Ghana after sustaining gun shot wounds in the town of Lamesegu just ahead of an election rally, according to radio reports monitored here. Full text...

Saint-Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- A protest march against violence on women and children has been announced here for 28 November. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least 20 unarmed Ijaw youths were shot and wounded during a clash with soldiers deployed to Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta oil region Monday, the local press reported. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- Sudan and DR Congo have been listed among 17 countries worldwide to benefit from $1 million in grants announced Tuesday by the UN Trust Fund to Eliminate Violence Against Women. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- At least 50 people lost their homes at the weekend, when houses were torched in a village feud in Malawi's lakeshore district of Salima, some 100 km from the capital, Lilongwe, sources confirmed Monday. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo Friday ordered the Inspector General of Police, Tafa Balogun, to deploy more anti-riot police personnel to the south-eastern State of Anambra, where clashes between rival ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) members have left several government buildings and vehicles razed in the past three days. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- At least 10 fighters of the National Liberation Front (FNL) were killed Thursday night in an attack known in advance against a military position of the former dissident group, Forces for the Defence of Democracy(FDD) on the hillsides south-east of Bujumbura, the Burundi capital. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Suspected hoodlums loyal to a faction of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria's southeast Anambra State attacked government offices and burnt cars and two studios of the State-run radio station in the State capital, Awka, Wednesday, the State government said. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- Welcoming South African President Thabo Mbeki's peace mission to Côte d'Ivoire Tuesday, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called on all parties to the Ivorian crisis to resume peace talks without delay. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union (EU) have jointly condemned the recent violence in Cote d'Ivoire that caused the death of both civilians and members of the peacekeeping forces. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Kadhafi has called on parties to the Ivorian conflict to reject violence, refrain from terrorising the population and allow the language of reason to prevail as they dialogue on the national crisis. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- ECOWAS chief peace mediator in the Liberian conflict, ex-Nigerian head of state Abdulsalami Abubakar, Saturday warned Liberians that continued violence in the country could "erode the confidence of the international community. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Last week's violence that killed some 18 people in Monrovia, has reportedly displaced some 300 people in the Liberian capital. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Six people were killed last Friday night in an ambush set up by a terrorist group in Douar M'senou, about 100 km south of Algiers, the military said in a statement. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) has vowed to employ "all appropriate measures" to halt the culture of violence and "deal firmly with law breakers" in Liberia. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The armed militia fighting for self- determination and resource control in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta said an agreement had been reached to end the fighting, following a meeting with government officials in Abuja. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- At least 22 Burundi rebel fighters were killed Thursday during an eight-hour battle with government force in Rural Bujumbura, where an upsurge of violence has persisted for the past six months. Full text...