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...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's deputy foreign minister Aziz Pahad on Tuesday condemned the recent incursion by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) into Gaza. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least two persons were killed and several others injured Sunday when rival factions of the southwest Yoruba militant organisation, Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), clashed in the Mushin suburb of Nigeria's commercial capital city of Lagos. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Unidentified gunmen killed about fifteen people, including women and children Wednesday night in the village of Broudoumé in Gagnoa region, about 400 km west of Abidjan, reliable sources said here Thursday. Full text...

Jos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian police authorities Thursday said investigations were continuing into the killing of 48 people, including women and children, by suspected militants in the Yelwa community in central Plateau state Tuesday, during a resurgence of the incessant communal/sectarian violence in the state. Full text...

Lira- Uganda (PANA) -- At least nine people were killed in a violent protest that turned ethnic when the Langi ethnic group attacked on members of the Acholi tribe, killing several people in Lira town, 300 km north of Ugandan capital Kampala. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- First Lady Lucy Kibaki expressed the need Wednesday for society to address the root causes of gender violence, urging long-term community-based strategies to stem violence against Kenyan girls and women. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's ruling African National Congress in the country's KwaZulu-Natal Province has reacted angrily to opposition Inkatha Freedom Party supporters who again tried to disrupt a government event at Harding on Sunday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- A 55-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man were shot and wounded after the Malawi police tried to break up an opposition coalition rally in Blantyre late Sunday afternoon. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- Amnesty International (AI) Gambia organised a workshop here Saturday to mobilise stakeholders in view of a 12-month national campaign on violence against women, to be launched on 8 March. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Six people were feared killed Thursday after police in Nigeria's central Niger State clashed with commercial motorcyclists, who were protesting the death of two of their colleagues, the local press reported Friday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- At least 196 people have been killed and 25 others seriously wounded in a spate of ethnic violence that has engulfed south-western Ethiopia's Gambella Region, a government statement said. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Domestic violence in Uganda has taken a new trend following recent revelations that over 1,500 men were battered by their wives in Mukono district, 24 km east of the capital Kampala. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia's Defence ministry has refuted a report by a local human rights group that soldiers had fired bullets and seriously injured 50 people during the recent riot in the western Gambella town. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Thirty persons were feared killed at the weekend as rival militia groups clashed in Bukuma, a riverine community in Degema local council of southeastern Rivers State, the local press reported Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least 10 youths from one of the ethnic groups in Nigeria's restive oil-bearing Niger Delta region were reported killed Thursday in a shootout with armed troops in Bomadi, Delta State. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Governor Rashidi Ladoja of Nigeria's south-west Oyo State has set up a panel to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the communal violence which erupted in the State at the weekend, leaving more than 25 dead and several buildings burnt, the local press reported. Full text...

Manzini- Swaziland (PANA) -- The Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse (SWAGAA) says it recorded 3,072 cases of abuse, mainly perpetrated against women and children, in 2003. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The death toll in the communal violence which broke out at Irawo town in Nigeria's southwest Oyo state at the weekend has risen from 10 to 25, as the fighting continued. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Suspected rebels killed 18 Persons and wounded or kidnapped others early Monday morning in north-western Burundi, informed sources said in Bujumbura. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- A group of Senegalese nationals based in France plan to protest against political violence back home Thursday in front of their embassy in Paris, the organisers told PANA Monday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Twenty bodies of those killed at the weekend in renewed ethnic fighting in Nigeria's volatile city of Warri, in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, have been recovered from the Benin River, press reports said Monday. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Irate mobs have lynched at least three armed robbers in Monrovia in the past few days, while police confirmed Wednesday that 16 prisoners broke jail in the Liberian capital. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- French defence minister Michèle Alliot Marie, who concluded a 24-hour visit here on Thursday warned that actions of extremists could spark violence in Cote d'Ivoire. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congolese papers this week are awash with comments on the violent events in the Southern Brazzaville districts of Bacongo and Makelekele. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Former Liberian government militias are stoking fresh violence in the country's north-eastern Nimba County, some 300-km from Monrovia, State radio reported Wednesday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Calm returned Friday morning to Bakongo and Makelekele Districts in southern Brazzaville after Thursday night's sporadic shooting in the Congolese capital, Radio Congo reported Friday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The violence that has engulfed parts of Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta this year is driven by disputes over both government resources and control of the theft of crude oil, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report for release Wednesday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi Statutory Corporations Minister Bob Khamisa has demanded the immediate expulsion from the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) and arrest of MP Robson Jangiya, suspected of hiring party militants to disrupt a Church service in his constituency Machinga. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African Parliament is currently considering a new Sexual Offences Bill which among other things tackles a new definition of rape that will allow women to enter court as the accuser rather than the victim. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Suspected militants of Malawi's ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) party caused extensive damaged to three vehicles belonging to the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Sunday in Machinga District. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- At least 15 people were injured, four of them seriously, after over 100 members of a Yao ethnic group armed with machetes and clubs invaded a mainly Chewa ethnic group township in the outskirts of the capital, Lilongwe, in a reportedly revenge attack against the latter. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- As South Africans observe the "16 Days of Activism on No Violence Against Women and Children", a local business expert against crime warned Thursday of the negative effects on gender violence the economy. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Gender parity activists in Botswana take to the streets Thursday to protest rising gender-based violence in the southern African nation of about 1. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Ivorian government soldiers shot and killed two civilians last Saturday at Tanda, about 370 km east of Abidjan, the minister of defence Reny Amany said in a news release obtained by PANA here Wednesday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africans in the Western Cape took a stand against violence on women and children Tuesday by coming out in droves to participate in a Men's March. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South African President Thabo Mbeki Tuesday launched the "16 Days of Activism on No Violence Against Women and Children" campaign, urging the public to wear a white ribbon in support of the anti-violence activism. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- More than eight million were raped in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's South-Kivu province since the outbreak of the second civil war in 1998. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- At least 5 people were killed and as many wounded Sunday night in several attacks on Bujumbura by the rebel National Liberation Front (FNL), sources said here. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal has said in Dakar that a protest rally against political violence organised last Thursday by the opposition and civil society organisations was a success. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- About 100 leaders of women bodies and community groups are currently attending a 15-day workshop on violence against women in Abomey, about 144 km outside here, organisers said Saturday. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Unidentified gunmen killed at least seven people Monday night during an attack against the Kinama residential area, a northern outskirts of Bujumbura, the Burundi capital, an official disclosed here Tuesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Talla Sylla, leader of a minor Senegalese opposition party named 'Jëf-Jël' (Reap what you sow), is still in hospital after being attacked Sunday in Dakar by suspected political thugs. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- A rebel leader in western Sudan on Tuesday accused militiamen allied to the government in Khartoum of burning villages and driving many people from their homes despite a recent truce reached to stop fighting in the area. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- At least 10 civilians and two soldiers were killed Sunday in an attack believed to have been launched by the Hutu National Liberation Front (FLN) rebel group several kilometres south-east of Bujumbura. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Nine soldiers were killed Wednesday in an ambush set up by armed Islamists near Oued Djemâa in the Ain- Defla prefecture 250 km west Algiers, sources said Thursday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Four people were killed and at least 10 houses, including a vicarage, razed Monday in a communal violence at Effurun, near the flash-point city of Warri in Nigeria's oil- rich Niger Delta region, the local press reported Tuesday. Full text...

Lilongwe- Malawi (PANA) -- The newly elected leader of Malawi's ruling party's youth wing on Wednesday told his notorious charges known as Young Democrats that he would not brook indiscipline under his administration. Full text...