Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Catholic Archbishop Anatole Milandou of Brazzaville, who also heads the Congolese Episcopal Conference on Thursday, urged President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's government not to ignore the unfolding tragedy in the Pool region. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- At least 5,000 people have flocked to a Brazzaville suburb over the past fortnight after escaping fighting between government troops and armed dissidents in three districts of southern Congo's Pool region. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Hundreds of people fleeing renewed fighting between Congolese government forces and Ninja militiamen in Pool region have taken refuge in the southern suburbs of Brazzaville. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Governor Joshua Dariye of Nigeria's central Plateau State has issued a shoot-at-sight order to the police as part of efforts to stop the latest outbreak of communal violence in the State, the local press reported Thursday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- One student was killed and another seriously injured in a clash between students of Lagos State Polytechnic and gangsters, known locally as "area boys" at the weekend, the police said Monday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algerian security forces have shot dead ten armed men in Remka in the district of Relizane, 350 km west of Algiers, local sources said. Full text...

Malabo- Equatorial Guinea (PANA) -- Two Nigerian nationals were on Monday seriously burnt when a crowd at Malabo central market attacked them to avenge the killing of an Equatorial Guinean by three of their compatriots, police sources said here Tuesday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Nine soldiers died last Sunday following a mine explosion on the Congo Ocean railway (CFCO) linking Pointe Noire, the country's main economic centre to the capital Brazzaville, hospital source revealed Tuesday. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Seven people were killed Saturday night in Ammi Moussa, a prefecture of Relizane (350 km west of Algiers), Algerian security forces, without providing details on the number of perpetrators, said in Algiers Sunday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian soldiers and policemen engaged in a violent clash that left many people injured, following disagreement over dogmeat at a popular pepper soup joint in the northern town of Gusau, the private Punch newspaper reported Sunday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Two persons were feared dead and several others injured in Nigeria's mid-western Edo state, when commercial drivers and officials of the state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) clashed on Wednesday, the local press reported. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- In a spate of weekend tragedies in Nigeria, three policemen were shot dead by suspected armed robbers in the commercial city of Lagos, while an opposition party chieftain was killed by suspected assassins in the northern city of Kano. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has accused the police of killing two of its members during a clash with students of the Delta State University (DELSU) in Abraka, mid-western Nigeria, at the weekend. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Violent clashes have taken place in the El-Kseur commune of the Bejaia District, 300 km east of Algiers, between young demonstrators and security forces, a reliable source said in the Algerian capital. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Seven people were killed on Friday by terrorist groups in Chlef and Ain-Defla Districts, more than 200 km west of Algiers, a reliable source said Saturday in the Algerian capital. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- UN Secretary General's representative to Somalia, Winston Tubman, has expressed deep concern at the growing loss of lives from clan fighting in many parts of the country. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The report of a new study by two NGOs, has shown that 10,000 people were killed and thousands more were displaced in more than 50 incidents of violence in Nigeria since elected civilian administration was installed in the country in May 1999. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Dare-devil armed hoodlums killed one police Corporal and wounded three other police personnel in Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos Sunday night, the police confirmed Wednesday. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- A sub-regional capacity building workshop is holding 26-30 August in Ouagadougou, with focus on how to approach the problem of violence against women through sexual and reproductive programmes. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Three persons were feared dead while several vehicles and houses were vandalised Monday in Nigeria's south-western town of Ado-Ekiti as the violence which broke out in the Ekiti State capital at the weekend continued. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) on Monday condemned what it said was "the hijacking of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) by anti-Israeli extremists. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The Algerian army has recovered 10 bodies of suspected Islamists from a heavily bombed tunnel in the mountains of Djurdjura in the Kabylia region, well-informed sources said in Algiers Thursday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Unidentified thugs on Friday night ambushed opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leader Brown Mpinganjira at a police check point outside the capital, Lilongwe. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Twenty-six people were killed Thursday night by a group of suspected Islamic fundamentalists in Herchoune commune of Chlef prefecture, 250-km west of Algiers, indicates a report by the Algerian security services. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algerian security has arrested 14 suspected terrorists operating in the Salafist Group for Preaching and Struggle (GSPC) in the main city of Moumerdes, 50 km east of Algiers, official sources said in Algiers Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- There is a decline in the security situation in Somalia which is making work there difficult for its staffers, UN Resident and Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Somalia, Maxwell Gaylard, said Tuesday in Nairobi. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Suspected Islamists killed five people last Tuesday in the locality of Ammi Moussa near Relizane, 350 km west of Algiers, sources indicated Thursday. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Controversy has emerged over the number of people killed during last Sunday's fighting between the Burundi army and rebels in rural Bujumbura province near Bujumbura, the capital, a privately-owned radio reported on Wednesday. Full text...

Kinshasa- RD Congo (PANA) -- Calm has returned to the western DR Congo province of Bas-Congo after last week's violence which killed several people after a politico-religious movement in the area went on rampage, the Congolese News Agency reported. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Ali Bizimana, Programmes Director with the Burundi private radio, Bonesha FM, was killed in an ambush Monday by suspected rebels in the residential district of Mutanga, north-east of Bujumbura, his colleagues said Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Five people were feared killed and at least 20 injured in communal violence at the weekend between the Ozoro and Okpaile communities in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta state, local press reports said. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The UN indicated Thursday that malnutrition was rife among child victims of the civil war in Kindamba, western Pool region, south of Brazzaville. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- At least two militia men were killed and two policemen were injured Wednesday during a clash between Somali police and a militia group loyal to some businessmen at the Bakara market in Mogadishu, witnesses said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has threatened to use soldiers to stem violence during contentious state congresses of the party. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The International Francophonie Organisation (OIF) Wednesday expressed "serious concern about the escalation of violence in Madagascar", and appealed to political leaders there to stop destroying a country which recently showed signs of economic growth. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- President Omar el Bashir has ordered an investigation into the recent communal violence in Western Sudan's Darfur region that reportedly claimed more than 50 lives and razed scores of villages. Full text...

Bangui- Central Africa Republic (PANA) -- Central African Republic and Sudan have agreed to set up a Commission to investigate the 17 May bloody communal clashes along their common border, officials said in Bangui. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Factions in a chieftaincy clashed Wednesday in Ghana's north-west town of Wa, leaving one student dead and two others suffering from gunshot wounds. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- UN system co-ordinator to Congo, William Paton, said Wednesday in Brazzaville that several women have been raped by Congolese soldiers at Kindamba in Pool Region, 100 km South of Brazzaville. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- At least 15 persons, including two policemen, were shot dead and 25 others got injured after security forces and demonstrators clashed in southern Ethiopia, federal authorities confirmed on Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's northern state of Bauchi has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on its capital, Bauchi, after a religious clash at a high school in the city at the weekend left three students dead and several property destroyed, according to local press reports. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya is still very far from achieving total gender parity and justice, indicates a report released by the country's chapter of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Kenya). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has decided not to admit a renowned politician recently expelled by another party for allegedly sponsoring violence. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Poor quartering of the police in Kampala has combined with drunkenness and polygamous lifestyles to give rise to domestic violence and child neglect in families of the law enforcers. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Three persons died early Wednesday when armed robbers opened fire on a luxury passenger bus in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, the police said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Five people were kidnapped and several others injured Tuesday in a resurgence of violence in the K-Dere community of Ogoni in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, according to local press reports. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Uneasy calm was reported Tuesday in the city of Tizi-Ouzou in Kabylia (100 km east of Algiers) following a restful weekend in the area. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Twenty seven people were killed, 20 others injured and several villages burnt down during tribal clashes in Habila district of the Western Sudanese State of South Darfur, according to police spokesman Sayyed el Hussein Sunday night in Khartoum. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Four people were killed and three others wounded Thursday night by suspected Islamic fundamentalists at Mechrâa Sfa in the Tiaret prefecture, 350 km west of Algiers, Algerian security services reported Friday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Five people were feared dead and several others injured Tuesday following an eruption of violence at the Local Council Primaries of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Kontagora local government area of central Niger State, the local press reported Wednesday. Full text...