N'djamena- Chad (PANA) -- Chad's ruling Patriotic Movement for Salvation (MPS) Monday blamed the rebel Movement for Democracy and Justice (MDJT) for renewed clashes with government troops in the north-eastern Tibesti region. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- Twelve Somalis were reported killed and more than 30 injured during heavy clashes between rival militias in Baidoa, capital of the self-proclaimed regional autonomy of south-west Somalia on Sunday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least one person was reported killed Tuesday in a clash between armed policemen and touts at the volatile Mile 2 bus stop in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial city. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Cape Town resident Morne Viljoen is one of hundreds of tourists injured in Saturday's bomb blasts on Indonesia's tourist island of Bali. Full text...

Port Louis- Maurice (PANA) -- Mauritian pupils Monday stormed into shops and markets of Phoenix town to sensitize the public about the negative effects of plastic shopping bags on the environment. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African government, business and labour have signed a ground-breaking agreement on the management of plastic bags, ending years of disagreement over the merits of increasing the thickness of shopping bags. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Two Ivorians were killed and five others got wounded in community clashes in Cote d'Ivoire's remote town of Iboké, reliable sources said Saturday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Uneasy calm prevailed Friday in Brazzaville after the gun battle between the Ninja militia led by preacher Frederic Bitsangou alias Ntumi and government troops, west of the Congolese capital. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sixty-three herdsmen in Sudan's South Western Darfur State were killed in a recent clash with tribesmen from the Central African Republic (CAR), the Sudanese Foreign ministry has said. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- At least 200 people have fled their homes following renewed ethnic clashes which started last Sunday in the western Ugandan district of Kabale, police authorities have confirmed. Full text...

Antananarivo- Madagascar (PANA) -- Two persons were killed and about 40 others wounded Friday in a skirmish that followed the installation of Jacques Sylla, Madagascar's Prime Minister, appointed by self-proclaimed President Marc Ravalomanana. Full text...

Antananarivo- Madagascar (PANA) -- Two persons were killed and about 40 others wounded Friday in a skirmish that followed the installation of Jacques Sylla, Madagascar's Prime Minister, appointed by self-proclaimed President Marc Ravalomanana. Full text...

Lilongwe- Malawi (PANA) -- Three people have been arrested in the northern Malawi border district of Karonga following violent clashes over land that left one dead this past weekend. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Ethnic clashes in the region of Bunia in northeastern DR Congo since late last week have claimed more than 200 lives, human rights and UN sources reported Sunday. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- At least five persons were killed and 20 others wounded Tuesday evening in heavy fighting between two clans in Koryoley district in lower Shabele region of southern Somalia. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Visiting Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa of Egypt on Wednesday had an audience with Libyan leader Col. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- At least 25 members of the Yoruba Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) were feared to have been killed during Saturday's clash with guards at the palace of the traditional ruler of Owo, in Nigeria's south-west Ondo state, the local media reported Sunday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Communal clashes that last year claimed more than 100 lives in Kenya's south-eastern Tana District, flared up again this weekend with four deaths reported. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's northern Taraba State government has sent police reinforcement to Sardauna local government area where several people have been killed in a resurgence of communal clashes in the past few days, the local media reported Tuesday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- A dispute between residents of two remote Malian villages have left eight persons dead and several others wounded, the Malian Press Agency (AMAP) reported Friday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan has proposed a 500 million-dollar plan to the Cairo-based Arab League for the rehabilitation of the country's war-torn South, press reports said in Khartoum Saturday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Security agencies sent to the northeastern corner of Ghana to restore calm in fighting between two ethnic groups on Saturday said it has been difficult to disarm them. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- One more victim of Ghana's ethnic clashes at Bawku, about 830 km north of Accra has died as the security agencies arrested five more people. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya Friday toured the clash-torn Kibera Estate within Nairobi and ordered an immediate crackdown against those he said were inciting the residents to fight against each other. Full text...

Johannesburg- South African (PANA) -- A South African trade union has disapproved an impending ban on plastic shopping bags saying the move has put several jobs on the line. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The death toll in ethnic clashes in the north-eastern corner of Ghana rose to 18 as the police and military rushed in forces to control the situation, Radio Ghana reported on Monday. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A dusk to dawn curfew has been imposed on Bawku town, 830 kilometres northeast of Accra, after ethnic clashes claimed three lives, Ghana News Agency (GNA) has reported. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Two Kenyan environmentalist have undertaken a unique project which they say is set to revolutionalise the waste plastic paper recycling industry and combat the wanton decimation of the country's forest cover at the same time. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Between 10 and 14 people were killed during communal clashes in Kenya's Tana River district, South-east of Nairobi, local television stations reported Monday evening. Full text...

Bulawayo- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Hundreds of former fighters in Zimbabwe's war of independence, armed with sticks and other missiles, Friday descended on offices and supporters of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to avenge the death of their provincial leader allegedly killed by MDC members last week. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- There have been clashes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the rebel RCD movement and "uncontrolled" armed groups, the head of the UN Mission in Congo reported Thursday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The situation was reportedly calm Saturday at Owode-Onirin, on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, where two soldiers were shot dead Friday by militant youths suspected to belong to the banned Yoruba group, called the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC). Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Rival supporters of feuding leaders of the beleaguered main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) clashed outside a high court in Blantyre Thursday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Two people were feared dead Wednesday and several others injured when police clashed with suspected members of the ethnic Yoruba group Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) in the south-western city of Abeokuta. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzania will next Wednesday inaugurate its largest gold mine, the chairman of the Tanzania Chamber of Mines, Samuel Lwakatare said. Full text...

Katima Mulilo- Namibia (PANA) -- World Wildlife Fund of Namibia (WWF) on Tuesday donated 97 impalas to the Salambala conservancy in Namibia's Caprivi. Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Environment ministry and the Mauritian Soft Drinks Bottlers Association Wednesday launched Wednesday at Flic-en-Flac, a tourist resort 20 km west of the capital, a campaign to collect used plastic bottles for recycling. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- OAU Secretary-General Salim Ahmed Salim said Wednesday that the continental Organisation should find alternative ways to boost its revenue and stem its perennial financial woes. Full text...

Lafia- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria Police say they are now well-equipped to stem the communal violence in the country's central State of Nasarawa, where hundreds of people have been killed and thousands displaced in two weeks of fighting. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- More policemen have been dispatched to Nigeria's central state of Nasarawa as the 17-day communal violence in there escalated, causing about 200 deaths. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Bloody clashes took place during the run-up to and immediately after Kenya's first multiparty general elections in three decades in 1992. Full text...

Bunagana- Congo (PANA) -- Senior military sources in Kigali Friday reported that Rwandan Hutu rebels earlier in the week clashed with Ugandan armed forces in Gisoro, a border post between north-eastern DR Congo and Uganda. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The government in Tanzania this week came under resonating criticism from the media in relation to a number of issues regarding corruption, drug abuse and child and maternal mortality. Full text...