Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The government of Nigeria's southern Delta state has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the oil city of Warri, scene of a renewed outbreak of communal violence that left at least 20 people, including four soldiers dead this weekend, local press reports indicated Sunday. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- At least five persons were killed and six others injured Friday night in a violent gun-battle between the Burundian army and unidentified gunmen in the northern province of Ngozi, state radio reported here Saturday. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Ugandan government's failure to protect women from domestic violence and discrimination increases their risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- A Burundian policeman died from gunshot wounds Monday night while another officer was grievously wounded in an attack the government blamed on rebels that infiltrated Kibenga, a residential area on the southern outskirts of Bujumbura. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Two Nigerian league matches were abandoned at the weekend when home fans went on rampage in protest over what they perceived to be poor officiating against their teams. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Governor Diepreye Alamieyesegha of Nigeria's southeast Bayelsa state has said the federal government was under pressure to allow US Marines to the oil-rich Niger Delta to help protect American oil companies' installation from incessant attacks and violence in the area, the local media reported Wednesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The incessant communal violence in Nigeria's oil city of Warri escalated again at the weekend, leaving 22 dead and several houses burnt, the local press reported Monday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Two presumed terrorists were shot dead Wednesday by security forces in the Ain Dhab area, about 100 km south of Algiers, police sources revealed here Thursday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- In news about Africa, war and conflict often take centre stage, but they conceal equally vicious forms of violence such as homicide, rape, the abuse and neglect of children, violence against women and violence against the elderly, WHO Africa Regional Office (WHO-AFRO), said in a release Saturday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least 15 people were feared killed and dozens injured Thursday in a resurgence of ethnic violence in Nigeria's oil city of Warri, which has been wracked by incessant clashes between rival factions in the last few months, the local press reported. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- People of Alur community living in the Mahagi area of Ituri District in eastern DR Congo have appealed to the multinational emergency force to deploy in the region to "ensure the security of the population and their property". Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Armed troops and well-equipped anti-riot policemen are now patrolling major streets in Effurun in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta after days of violent clashes, press reports said on Tuesday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- An armed Islamic group killed three persons conveying cash to a bank Monday on a trunk road between Larbâa Nath Irathen and Ain-El Hammam in the district of Tizi- Ouzou, some 100km east of Algiers, police sources said. Full text...

N'djamena- Chad (PANA) -- At least six people have died in street violence this week in the southern Chadian city of Moundou, sources close to the Public Security ministry said in N'djamena Saturday. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Douala, Cameroon's economic capital was calm Thursday, after Wednesday's violent clash between the police and taxi drivers that reportedly left at least two people dead. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Burundi's unarmed opposition on Tuesday urged the protagonists in the country's socio-political crisis to hold an all-inclusive dialogue to end the two-day fierce fighting tearing apart Bujumbura's southern districts. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- For the second day running, the security situation was still confused Tuesday in Bujumbura's southern districts as fighting between rebels and the governmental army continued unabated in the area. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Militant youths of Malawi's ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) went on the rampage on Monday, assaulting journalists just minutes before President Bakili Muluzi opened a day-long convention of the party. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Three people were killed and 15 others injured in a grenade attack here last Wednesday night, police in Abidjan confirmed Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Kenyan legislator claimed that 98 percent of domestic violence cases in the country were caused by inheritance, land disputes and polygamy. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi President Bakili Muluzi has warned that he would not tolerate violence in the country in the name of religion. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Union has hailed the progress made by its military contingent in stopping the ethnic violence in Bunia City in northeaster DR Congo. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- An armed Islamic group killed eight members of the same family and abducted a young woman Wednesday night in the hamlet of Beni-Belkacem in the district of Talbat nearby Medea (100 km south of Algiers), a police source said on Friday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Presidents Joseph Kabila of DR Congo and Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo have condemned recent massacres in Ituri, and praised the UN Security Council for deploying an emergency multinational force in Bunia, Congolese public radio announced here Thursday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Police used tear-gas and blank bullets to disperse unruly vendors in downtown Lusaka on Wednesday when these refused to leave shop corridors where they have been trading illegally. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- European Union (EU) authorities Monday expressed serious concern at the intensification of fighting between the Liberian government and rebels. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has strongly condemned the armed attempts to overthrow the constitutional Government of Mauritania and called for an immediate end to the violence. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- About eight Algerian policemen were killed and one injured Wednesday in an ambush outside Beni-Douala in Tizi-Ouzou, 100 km east of Algiers, police sources confirmed. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghanaian security agencies reported Thursday that the death toll in clashes between youths of the main political parties has risen to two, saying a second man was accidentally shot dead by a soldier on Wednesday. Full text...

Sao Tome- Sao Tome and Principe (PANA) -- One person was killed and eight hurt in Thursday's clashes between the Sao Tome and Principe police and artefact sellers, witnesses said Saturday. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Calm has returned to Bujumbura and its surroundings Friday after a spate of fighting between government and rebel forces on the outskirts of the city. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The police in Nigeria's south-western Ondo State have recovered more than 500 new cutlasses from suspected political thugs ahead of Saturday's presidential and gubernatorial elections, state-owned Radio Nigeria reported Friday. Full text...

Katsina- Nigeria (PANA) -- Police in Nigeria's northern Katsina State have arrested about 90 people linked to Tuesday's attack on the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Malumfashi local council of the state. Full text...

Katsina- Nigeria (PANA) -- Police in Nigeria's northern Katsina State have arrested about 90 people linked to Tuesday's attack on the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Malumfashi local council of the state. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo Friday brokered a meeting of major political stakeholders in Lagos, the country's economic capital, amid security reports of likely violence during Saturday's parliamentary elections. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Eleven armed Islamists were shot dead Sunday by the security forces during a mopping-up operation in the region of Beni Boutaleb, district of Chelf, 250km west of Algiers, a police source revealed Monday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- As the Nigerian government continues a two-pronged approach to resolve the two-week ethnic violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta, indications are that the crisis may have forced the closure of the Warri refinery, one of the country's four refineries. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Executive Director Noeleen Heyzer has deplored the violence directed at women living in conflict areas, appealing to the concerned states to take measures to protect them. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- As women in other parts of the world prepare to mark World Women's Day on Saturday, Botswana is reeling in shock over a series of murders involving young women reportedly killed by their estranged lovers. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African government Thursday expressed "regret and outright condemnation" of the suicide bombing in Haifa and the Israeli retaliatory military operation in Gaza, both resulting in many deaths and injuries. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Two persons were feared dead and 20 others injured Wednesday in Urhonigbe, in Nigeria's mid-western Edo state where youths attacked the campaign convoy of state governor Lucky Igbinedion, the local press reported Thursday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- A France-based NGO, Afrique-Conseil, has been providing assistance to several dozen African immigrant women victims of domestic violence every year, one of the NGO's officials, Kabangu Muanza, said on Tuesday in Paris. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- One out of eight Congolese women is brutalised by her husband or companion in the home, a member of the National Council for Women (CNF) said in Kinshasa on Monday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Militia and vigilante violence continues to pose a real threat to security in Nigeria, especially in the period leading up to the April general elections in the country, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned in a report Friday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- An armed Islamic group in Algeria's Tipasa prefecture has murdered 12 people, the police announced here Thursday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo Tuesday condemned the political killings in Owerri, capital of the south-eastern Imo State, as he took his campaign for re-election to the south-east zone of the country. Full text...

Lilongwe- Malawi (PANA) -- A group of Malawi's ruling party (UDF) Tuesday injured a 20-year-old man who reportdely chanted slogans against proposed constitional amendments to enable President Bakili Muluzi to seek a third mandate after 2004. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- One person was killed and three others injured Sunday in politically motivated violence that erupted in Owo, in Nigeria's south-western Ondo State, according to local press reports. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- One person was killed and seven others were injured Tuesday in a petrol bomb attack on a house used as a campaign base by ruling party supporters in Harare, police said. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Violence perpetrated against women is increasing in the Maghreb countries, said experts who met this weekend in Algiers to assess the experience of the legal and psychological monitoring centres in Algiers and Tunis. Full text...