Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Six persons were feared killed Thursday night when rival factions of Ijaw youths clashed in Yenagoa, capital of Nigeria's southern state of Bayelsa, the privately- owned Guardian newspaper reported. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- The sudden upsurge of killings and rapes in several parts of Rwanda during the past few weeks has caused serious concern for the government which discussed such criminal activities in a cabinet meeting this week. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The second international symposium of the 'Alioune Blondin Beye Academy for Peace' was expected to end here Tuesday on the theme "Religions, Political Violence and Peace in Africa. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambian men may be justified in beating up their wives if the latter refuse to have sex with them, according to results of a sexual behaviour survey released by the country's Central Statistical Office in Lusaka Friday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Some 15 persons were feared dead and five villages razed in a fresh outbreak of violence in Nigeria's oil- rich city of Warri Wednesday, according to Thursday's press reports. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- A combined force of heavily armed police and army troops has been deployed to avert renewed ethnic fresh clashes in the western Uganda District of Kasese between farmers and cattle owners after fierce clashes that left some fighters to seek medical attention last week, an official said Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan legislators Monday surrendered to the police for arrest in connection with Saturday's street battles that left Nairobi in disarray as businessmen counted their losses following the riot. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan Police helicopters flew low as protestors demanding a new constitution engaged security forces in running battles after the government cancelled two parallel public rallies scheduled for Saturday to press for the enactment of new basic laws. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- At least 100 persons marched silently Friday for more than an hour in the streets of Port Louis, carrying banners that denounced domestic violence on the island. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The government of Nigeria's northern Adamawa state has deposed the paramount ruler of the Bachama, Frederick Bongo, for his alleged nonchalance over the ethno- religious violence that left dozens dead in Numan area earlier this week, the local press reported Saturday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Dozens of people were feared dead in an ethno-religious violence which broke out Tuesday in Norman town, in Nigeria's northern Adamawa state, the local press reported. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), shows that some 1. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- The UN-sponsored International Monitoring Committee for the peace agreement between the government of Cote d'Ivoire and armed opposition in the country has condemned the violence that erupted Monday in Abidjan and elsewhere. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- A woman is killed every 6 hours in South Africa by her intimate partner, according to the first national study of female homicides in South Africa released here. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The Irish presidency of the European Union Friday condemned the current bloody clashes in the north- eastern DR Congo city of Bakavu between the country's dissident soldiers and those of the regular army (FARDC). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The number of people killed in the latest clashes in the Quaan Pan local council area of the crisis-torn Nigerian central Plateau state has been put at 30, against five reported by the local media Thursday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Only hours after President Olusegun Obasanjo slapped emergency rule on central Plateau state in the face of recurring ethno-religious clashes there, fresh fighting broke out Tuesday in a part of the state, leaving at least five persons dead and several more injured, according to local press reports. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least three persons were feared dead and valuables worth thousands of naira destroyed in a resurgent clash between supporters of two political parties in the Kwande local council area of central Benue at the weekend, the local press reported. Full text...

Kano- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's northern city of Kano is quiet for the second day running Friday, after two days of rioting by Muslim youths left many dead and property worth millions destroyed. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Seemingly frustrated that his government's efforts to curb Nigeria's spiralling sectarian and communal violence has not yielded the desired results, President Olusegun Obasanjo has vented his anger on religious leaders in central Plateau, which has been a hotbed of such crisis since 2001. Full text...

Kano- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Kano State government in northern Nigeria has closed all public primary and post-primary schools in Kano city and its environs following two days of religious riots in the State. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least 21,000 Nigerians have been displaced after two days of religious violence in Nigeria's northern Kano state, according to a spokesman of the local Red Cross (NRC). Full text...

Kano- Nigeria (PANA) -- Christian leaders in Kano said Thursday at least 600 people, mostly Christians, have been killed in two days of religious violence in the predominantly-Muslim northern Nigerian city. Full text...

Kano- Nigeria (PANA) -- As uneasy calm prevails in Nigeria's northern city of Kano after two days of religious violence, the spiritual head of Nigerian Muslims Thursday condemned the riots which have killed 30 and left hundreds injured. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo is scheduled to travel to central Plateau state Thursday to assess the situation in the areas of the state hit by sectarian and communal violence recently, state governor Joshua Dariye said. Full text...

Kano- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Nigeria police said Wednesday 30 persons have been killed in the northern city of Kano, as the violence entered the second day, while its forces have arrested 45 persons in connection with the violence. Full text...

Kano- Nigeria (PANA) -- Security agents have restored order in Nigeria's northern city of Kano after a supposedly peaceful protest by Muslims against the killing of their brethren in the central town of Yelwa degenerated into violence Tuesday. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said Tuesday a permanent solution must be found to the continuous bloody ethnic and religious crises in the country, after fresh sectarian riots broke in the northern city of Kano. Full text...

Kano- Nigeria (PANA) -- The death toll from Tuesday's religious riots in Nigeria's northern city of Kano has risen to at least 18 people, eyewitnesses said Tuesday here. Full text...

Kano- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least three persons were feared dead and many more injured in Nigeria's northern city of Kano Tuesday, when a supposedly peaceful protest by Muslims against the recent sectarian violence in Yelwa, central Plateau state, turned violent. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least four persons were killed and several others injured in a clash between two neighbouring Ogoni communities in Nigeria's southeast Rivers State at the weekend, the local press has reported. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The British government Monday expressed concern over the sectarian and communal violence in Yelwa, Nigeria's central Plateau State, and called for an end to the crisis that killed at least 67 people and displaced hundreds last week. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Conflicting figures of the number of those killed or injured in last Sunday's communal and sectarian violence in Yelwa town in Nigeria's central Plateau state have sparked a row between the government and a section of the local and international media. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Security agents Wednesday shot dead 25 persons in Yelwa town in Nigeria's central Plateau state, scene of last Sunday's sectarian and communal violence which claimed about 100 lives, the private Champion newspaper reported Thursday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian police have deployed 600 extra security agents to the Shendam local government in central Plateau state where 100 people were killed in sectarian and communal violence last weekend, according to police spokesman Chris Olakpe Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Some 12 persons died in separate outbreak of violence in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region Tuesday, according to local press reports Wednesday. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- President Omar Bongo Ondimba was Tuesday presiding over a cabinet meeting essentially devoted to the growing culture of violence among Gabonese students, official sources said. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- At least two people were killed and several others injured following clashes between police and residents of Malawi's southern border town of Nsanje, an opposition stronghold, police said Monday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Police in Jos on Saturday battled angry fans who invaded the pitch for several minutes at the Rwang Pam Stadium in north central Nigeria, after visiting Dolphin FC of Port Harcourt scored a dying minute goal against Plateau United in a premier league match. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- The head of the Catholic Church in Uganda, Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala has decried rampant violence characterised by persistent intimidation unleashed against Ugandans by the regime of President Yoweri Museveni. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Armed soldiers killed 30 persons in Donga town in Nigeria's northern Taraba State at the weekend during a mission to avenge the death of one of their colleagues killed during an election-related violence in the town, local press reports said Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Five persons were feared killed Saturday and many others wounded when armed youths and police clashed in Asaba, capital of Delta state in Nigeria's oil-rich but volatile Niger Delta region, the local press reported Sunday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Women in the eastern DR Congo town of Baraka and the surrounding areas of South Kivu are still subjected to horrific abuses, notably gang-rapes by lingering combatants in the area, according to a report by the international medical charity, Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF). Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has called on the African Union (AU) to condemn incidents of political violence and intolerance in Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Uganda over the past weekend. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Unidentified gunmen at the weekend shot and severely wounded the Commissioner for Lands and Survey in Nigeria's northern Benue State, Titus Mdugu, and killed his police orderly, three weeks after a similar attack on the state governor left two persons dead, the local press reported Monday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Presumed insurgents attacked four military camps in Kinshasa early Sunday morning, DR Congo Press and Information minister Vital Kamerhe said, alleging a coup attempt. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nine persons were killed as rival cult groups clashed in the Diobu area of Port Harcourt, capital of Nigeria's south-east River State, ahead of Saturday's council poll in the country, a local radio station reported Friday. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Domestic violence masterminded by women is on the increase, following another stunning revelation that nearly 100 men were battered and denied sex by their wives during 2003 in Uganda's eastern district of Kayunga. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Six students from the Ikere College of Education in Nigeria's south-west Ekiti State are feared dead and many others have been injured in a clash with armed policemen during a protest by the students in the town Sunday, press reports said Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least seven civilians and a soldier were killed Tuesday in a gun battle between armed youths and soldiers in the restive city of Warri in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region, according to local press reports. Full text...