Nairobi/Abuja - Nigeria's government is mulling an amnesty for rebels agitating for independence in the country's delta region.

The rebel groups have greatly reduced the West African country's oil output with their frequent attacks on oil pipelines and kidnapping of foreign workers.

The proposed amnesty, which was discussed by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua with members of his People's Democratic Party, is one idea for bringing the rebels back into mainstream society.

Nairobi - Authorities in Kenya plan to offer around 2.5 million orphaned children a "normal" life, by removing them out of institutions and placing them with relatives, reports said Wednesday.

The government was working on a programme aimed at eliminating the need for children to grow up in orphanages by linking the orphans and their relatives, The Standard newspaper said.

Nairobi - Sunday should have been a day of celebration for the tens of thousands of Ivorians who flocked to the Houphouet-Boigny stadium in Abidjan to see their hero, Chelsea's Didier Drogba, score twice in Ivory Coast's 5-0 route of Malawi in a World Cup qualifier.

Yet before the game had even begun, 22 football fans were dead and over 100 injured in a crush that came after a wall collapsed beneath a mass of bodies - a disaster all the more tragic for its commonality in the African game.

Nairobi  - A man suspected of being a fugitive wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for war crimes has been arrested in the Kenyan port town of Mombasa, police said Friday.

"We arrested a man, from Eastern Europe, who is alleged to be a man wanted by the war crimes tribunal," police spokesman Eric Kiraithe told German Press Agency dpa.

Kiraithe refused to reveal the suspect's name, but said that his identity should be verified by around 1200 GMT.

Nairobi - Some 250,000 Somalis living in one of the world's largest refugee camps are on the verge of a humanitarian emergency that can only be averted by urgent action, international charity Oxfam warned Friday.

The Dadaab refugee complex in north-eastern Kenya has become dangerously over-crowded as Somalis continue to flee a bloody insurgency that has claimed the lives of over 15,000 civilians since early 2007.

Oxfam warned that a public health crisis is brewing, with basic services stretched to breaking point by the mass of refugees.

Nairobi - As many as 750 people have died this month in South Sudan during clashes over cattle rustling, worsening the security situation and preventing refugees from returning, according to the United Nations.

A statement available on the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR website on Thursday said that fighting between the Nuer and Murle ethnic groups in Jonglei state, sparked by cattle rustling raids, was still spreading.