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Headline Title:  Stories of defiance: Human rights activists speak out 25 May 2012 When it launched its 50th annual report on the state of human rights worldwide, Amnesty International highlighted the courage shown by protesters and human rights defenders over the course of ...

The Nigerian delegation has repudiated claims that it has thrown its weight behind SA's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma for the position of AU chair.

A theater cast has flown from tropical Nigeria to share its own interpretation of the Shakespearean tragicomedy "The Winter's Tale" with a UK audience.

China confirmed on Thursday that some of the Chinese citizens arrested by Nigeria on charges of illegal trading have been released.

POLIO has been declared a “global emergency” by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative after “explosive” outbreaks in countries previously free of the disease. It has launched a plan to boost vaccination in Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the only countries where the disease is still endemic. Experts fear the disease could “come back with a vengeance”. The ...

MICHAEL BURLEIGH: Nigeria is making great economic strides, so one can only marvel at what would happen if it were to eradicate western education in favour of some grim hand-chopping regime.

Peru vence 1-0 a Nigeria en el Estadio Nacional con gol de Guerrero a los 36'. Pizarro y Farfán fueron titulares en los de Markarian. Roberto Palacios se despidió jugando 15'

Le Pérou a dominé le Nigéria (1-0), mercredi en amical à Lima....

La selección de baloncesto iniciará su andadura el 29 de julio

Nigeria immigration officials say they've arrested 45 Chinese nationals working in a popular northern market and plan to deport them.

NIGERIA'S immigration service arrested 45 Chinese nationals in the northern city of Kano for allegedly engaging in illegal textile trading.

Nigerian immigration officials arrest 45 Chinese nationals in the city of Kano for alleged illegal textile trading, accusing them of "scavenging".

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- A man tried to smuggle grenades and rifle ammunition into Nigeria's Information Ministry where ministers were attending a news conference Monday, witnesses and authorities said....

Indians are at the top in the number of maternal deaths all over the world. India and Nigeria alone constitute one third of world maternal death rate in 2010

The highly preventable disease survives in only Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. If we don't wipe it out now, a future epidemic could be devastating.As the World Health Assembly convenes in Geneva this week, one item on the agenda will be polio, or more specifically, how to finally deliver on an epic promise made a quarter-century ago: to liberate humankind from one of the world's most deadly...

Auf dem 6. World Skeptics Congress haben wir schon jede Menge gute Vorträge gehört (zum Beispiel den von Samantha Stein über Kartoffeln und Giraffen). Keinen Vortrag hält Leo Igwe. Der Menschenrechtsaktivist und Vertreter der Skeptikerbewegung in Nigeria, der momentan an der Uni Bayreuth an einem Forschungsprojekt über den Umgang mit angeblicher Hexerei in Afrika arbeitet, ist aber auch ...

Dans la province musulmane de Kano, dans le nord du Nigeria, depuis quelque temps, la police islamique, la Hisbah, arrange et organise des mariages…

Was tun, wenn in Nigeria die Gaspipeline brennt? Oder wenn das Wasser nach Öl schmeckt? Richtig: Handy gezückt! Denn es gibt eine App dafür. mehr...

Une explosion dans un bus a tué le conducteur et blessé deux passagers jeudi...

Weddings in Nigeria are colorful, creative and extravagant productions, with guest lists of up to 2,000 people considered standard.

The Kano state government in northern Nigeria announced its plans earlier this year to play matchmaker for unmarried women in order to reduce the rising divorce rate in the state.

Nigeria's defense minister said his country is ready to send troops to Guinea-Bissau and Mali as part of a regional force heading to the nations recently struck by coups.

Witnesses say at least seven police officers were killed in northeast Nigeria on Sunday in separate attacks likely carried out by a radical Islamist sect operating in the region.

Nigeria's telecom regulatory authority has fined Bharti Airtel and three other phone companies a total of 7.3 million dollars for providing poor services to customers.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigeria has fined four mobile phone carriers a total of $7.3 million over poor service and call quality in Africa's dominant market....

An unstable Persian Gulf and West Asia, coupled with the US pressure on India to cut oil imports from Iran, is driving New Delhi to make diversification a major plank of its energy policy. Now, India is looking at Canada, Nigeria, Venezuela and even Brazil as new sources of oil and gas.

Suleiman Mohammed, described as group's head of operations, held in Kano with wife and children, military officials say.

Nigeria's $1 billion sovereign-wealth fund is set to start operating in the next few months, in what would mark a crucial step to help the government finance the revamping of its ramshackle roads and power grids.

Nigeria is home to one out of every eight child deaths worldwide, and the Decade of Vaccines Economics projects 90 percent vaccine coverage can save 600,000 lives and $17 billion in Nigeria over the next 10 years.

Bringing a brain-tumour-removal technique to Nigeria, a flying doctor learns as much as he teaches

KANO, Nigeria -- A Nigerian police official says that three time bombs were found in different sections of a university in the city of Kano.Police spokesman Magaji Musa Majiya said Tuesday that the university personnel alerted the police after finding the bombs in the science and law buildings and at the sports complex of Bayero University. Majiya said police were on their way to the sites to d...

Le groupe pétrolier américain ConocoPhilips s'est adjoint les services de BNP Paribas pour trouver un acheteur pour ses actifs nigérians, a-t-on déclaré mardi à Reuters des sources proches de la situation. Ces actifs pourraient intéresser des groupes locaux, tels que Conoil et Oando, ainsi que des...

Oil giant Shell on Monday said two new leaks had occurred on one of its pipelines in southern Nigeria after similar incidents in recent days blamed on crude theft.

Tweet Widget Facebook Like High-level Nigerian government participation is needed at an upcoming international conference to make progress in ending a lead poisoning epidemic among children in Zamfara State, Human Rights Watch said today. (Gusau, Nigeria) – High-level Nigerian government participation is needed at an upcoming internationa...

Der frühere FCZ-Stürmer Rashidi Yekini in Nigeria verstorben

Teen actor Tshepang Mohlomi has his sights set on Hollywood stardom after scooping an award at the African Movie Academy Awards in Nigeria last weekend.

Lagos (SID) - Nigeria trauert um seinen ersten Torschützen bei einer Fußball-WM. Rashidi Yekini, der 1994 bei der Endrunde in den USA den ersten Treffer beim 3:0-Vorrundensieg gegen Bulgarien erzielt...

Nigeria trauert um seinen ersten Torschützen bei einer Fußball-WM. Rashidi Yekini starb am Freitag im Alter von 48 Jahren in seiner Heimat nach kurzer, schwerer Krankheit.

Nigeria trauert um seinen ersten Torschützen bei einer Fußball-WM. Rashidi Yekini starb am Freitag im Alter von 48 Jahren in seiner Heimat nach kurzer, schwerer Krankheit.

L'ex attaccante deceduto a Ibadan all'età di 48 anni: è passato alla storia per l'esultanza contro la Bulgaria nel Mondiale americano. Fu Pallone d'Oro africano nel '93

L'attaquant Rashidi Yekini, vainqueur de la Coupe d'Afrique des nations avec le Nigeria en 1994, est décédé vendredi à l'âge de 48 ans, ont annoncé sa famille et les responsables de la Fédération nigériane de football.

The Super Eagles coach reveals he has been in contact with the Leverkusen winger, and says that the ball is now in his court

Officials said at least 34 people were killed on Wednesday when gunmen started shooting in the Potiskum market in Yobe State as they tried to steal cattle.

Up to 50 people have been killed in a livestock market in northeast Nigeria after traders set fire to a suspected member of Boko Haram, triggering reprisals amid a surge in violence from the Islamist sect.

La policía señaló que el ataque puede ser en venganza por la muerte de un hombre que previamente había intentado robar ganado

Nigeria ist erneut von einem Anschlag erschüttert worden: Mehr als 30 Menschen wurden getötet, als Bewaffnete einen Viehmarkt im Nordosten des Landes angriffen. Noch ist unklar, wer hinter der Tat steckt. Vermutet wird aber, dass die islamistische Sekte Boko Haram den Anschlag verübt hat.

An attack on a cattle market in northeastern Nigeria by gunmen armed with explosives has left at least 34 dead and the toll is likely to climb, an emergency source said.

By Henning Gloystein and Alessandra PrenticeLONDON (Reuters) - The shale energy boom is fuelling a rise in the burning of waste gas after years of decline, a World Bank source told Reuters ahead of the release of new data, giving environmentalists more ammunition against the industry.Global gas flaring crept up by 4.5 percent in 2011, the first rise since 2008 and equivalent to the annual gas u...

KANO (Reuters) - Islamist group Boko Haram released a video late on Tuesday celebrating its bombing of a Nigerian newspaper and warning of more attacks on local and foreign media if they published reports that were biased to the sect or insulting to Islam.

A radical Islamist sect published a video on Tuesday showing a smiling suicide bomber drive into the offices of a major Nigerian newspaper and blow himself up, an attack that killed at least three people and made journalists a new target of the extremist group.

After relative lull, Boko Haram attacks have surged in the past few days; group seeking to establish Islamic caliphate in Africa's most populous nation whose 160 million people are split roughly evenly between Muslims and Christians.

100 US special forces soldiers bring US technology and expertise to central Africa, pairing up with local troops and Ugandan soldiers in hunt for wanted warlord Joseph Kony. 16 Killed in Attack on Nigeria University Church Service1 Killed in Grenade Attack on Church in Kenya

utl: Bei Angriffen auf Gottedienstgemeinden in Nigeria und Kenia starben am Sonntag mehr als 20 Menschen Vatikanstadt-Abuja, 30.04.12 (KAP) Der Vatikan hat die Anschläge auf christliche Kirchen in Kenia und Nigeria "aufs Entschiedenste" verurteilt. Die Angriffe seien "schrecklich und …

Der Norden Nigerias kommt nicht zur Ruhe: Bewaffnete haben am Sonntag eine Kirche im Nordosten von Nigeria angegriffen und laut Augenzeugen mindestens fünf Gottesdienstbesucher erschossen. Unter den Todesopfern war demnach auch der Pfarrer. Zuvor waren bei einem Terroranschlag auf eine christliche Universität in der Stadt Kano mindestens 16 Menschen ums Leben gekommen.

Bei zwei Anschlägen auf Christenversammlungen sind im Norden Nigerias mindestens 19 Gläubige getötet worden. Zahlreiche Menschen wurden verletzt. Der Verdacht richtet sich gegen die radikal-islamische Sekte Boko Haram.Mehr zum ThemaWechsel an der Spitze der Piratenpartei - Neuer Ober-Pirat lebt „polyamant“Timoschenko im Hungerstreik - Röttgen nennt Ukraine „Diktatur“ und plant EM-BoykottPiraten...

An official with the Nigerian Red Cross says at least 16 people were killed in an attack on church services at a university campus.

In gleich zwei afrikanischen Ländern haben islamistische Organisationen christliche Gottesdienste angegriffen. Im nigerianischen Kano starben bei einem Anschlag mindestens 16 Gläubige, im kenianischen Nairobi wurde ein Kirchenbesucher getötet.

French oil giant Total admitted it must do better on safety as it warned that the gas leak at its Elgin platform in the North Sea, and another in Nigeria, could wipe out its planned production growth this year.

Gas leak at its Elgin platform in the North Sea, and incidents in Nigeria and Yemen, conspired to compact the French company’s earnings

Royal Dutch Shell paid out an average of just £14 to each person affected by oil spills in Nigeria last year as it revealed profits from three months of trading reached almost £5bn.

Two suicide car bombers targeted the offices of Nigerian newspaper This Day in the capital Abuja and the northern city of Kaduna today, killing at least four people, officials and witnesses said.

TWO bomb blasts targeting newspaper offices in Nigeria killed at least six people. The first blast badly damaged an office of ThisDay.

Top government experts from the 15 member States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gathered today in Abuja to prepare for Arms Trade Treaty negotiations that will be held at the United Nations in July this year. The two-day meeting, jointly organized by the ECOWAS Commission and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), was formally opened by Olugbenga Ashiru,...

Une bombe a explosé à Jos, au Nigeria, durant la demi-finale retour de la Ligue des Champions entre Barcelone et Chelsea (2-2) mardi, causant la mort d'un supporter.

The Internet Society today published the results of a study that demonstrates the far-reaching economic and societal benefits of establishing Internet Exchange Points (or IXPs) in emerging markets. The study, commissioned by the Internet Society and conducted by independent strategy and research consultancy, Analysys Mason, examined the critical cost and performance benefits of IXPs in Kenya an...

The World Bank named Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth College’s president, as its new chief on Monday after an unprecedented competition against nominees from Nigeria and Colombia. In a statement Monday afternoon, the bank board said it had chosen Kim as the institution’s 12th president to succeed Robert Zoellick when his five-year term ends in June. Read full article >>

Providence Resources has received the final $6 million payment due from the sale of its share in an oilfield off the shore of Nigeria.

Vice President Biden welcomed Federal Republic of Nigeria Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo to the White House yesterday as part of the United States’ commitment to peace and prosperity for Nigeria and for the entire West African region.  The Vice President offered his condolences and those of the American people to Vice President Sambo for the lives lost in the Boko Haram attacks on Easte...

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Plus de 50 personnes ont été tuées lors des fêtes de Pâques au Nigeria, pays le plus peuplé d’Afrique : 36 lors d’attaques islamistes prés...lire la suite

Benoît XVI a lancé hier pour Pâques un appel à la paix universelle, en particulier en Syrie, condamnant « les discriminations et persécutions des communautés chrétiennes » du Moyen-Orient à l'Afrique, où un nouvel attentat antichrétien a touché le Nigeria .Articles en rapportL´IMAGE DU JOURLE MONDE À L´ENVERSSept cent quatre-vingt-dix décorés à la promotion de PâquesLe régime de Damas n´entend ...

El norte de Nigeria volvió a ser testigo ayer del terror en plenas celebraciones del Domingo de Resurrección. A primera hora de la mañana, un coche bomba estalló en una zona comercial de la ciudad de Kaduna, situada en la zona de Sardauna Cresent, y se cobró la vida de al menos 38 personas. Otras 35 resultaron heridas de gravedad. El atentado, sin embargo, no sorprendió a las autoridades, que a...

Bei Anlegern gilt vor allem Nigeria als Hoffnungsträger: Das Land verfügt über begehrte Rohstoffe und einen riesigen Binnenmarkt. Doch Korruption und die marode Infrastruktur verschrecken Investoren.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- The man who helped create the online reference Wikipedia said Tuesday that the end of Encyclopaedia Britannica's print run shows the world's growing reliance on the Internet as a base for knowledge....

More than 600 people gathered to pay their respects at the funeral service of Chris McManus, 28, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, who was killed earlier this month.

McGruber writes "Bloomberg News is reporting that AT&T got more than $16 million from the U.S. government to run Telecommunications Relay Services, intended to help the hearing- and speech-impaired. However, as many as '95 percent of the calls in AT&T's hearing- impaired program were made by people outside the U.S. attempting to defraud merchants through the use of stolen credit cards, ...

The family of an engineer from Greater Manchester, kidnapped and killed in Nigeria, pay tribute to him ahead of his funeral.

Mit der Entführung eines Deutschen in Nigeria soll möglicherweise die Frau des Anführers der islamistischen "Sauerland-Gruppe" aus der Haft freigepresst werden. Sicherheitskreise bestätigten dem SWR, dass es ein Drohvideo gebe. Darin werde die Freilassung der Deutsch-Türkin aus Ulm verlangt.

Ein in Nigeria entführter deutscher Bauingenieur befindet sich offenbar in Händen der Terrorgruppe „Al Qaida im islamischen Maghreb“. In einer Videobotschaft fordern die Entführer die Freilassung einer in Deutschland inhaftierten Frau, deren Mann Mitglied der „Sauerland-Gruppe“ist.

Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency has raised the alarm as Lassa Fever sweeps over sixteen states, having caused to date 40 deaths in over four hundred cases. It is thought the victims became infected by eating food contaminated with rat excrement and urine.

Un raid d'hommes armés a fait dix morts dont un pasteur dans un village...

South Africa's continental rival, Nigeria, has seized an opportunity that arose when Africa's southern region suspended its own court.

The Briton and Italian were executed before a failed commando rescue operation, the nation's secret police said.

The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Procter & Gamble with 13th Annual Secretary of State Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) on January 18, 2012 for the company’s exceptional corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts in Pakistan and Nigeria at a ceremony held in Washington DC. Hillary Clinton paid rich tributes to the services rendered by P&G around the world. ... ...

The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Procter & Gamble with 13th Annual Secretary of State Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) on January 18, 2012 for the company’s exceptional corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts in Pakistan and Nigeria at a ceremony held in Washington DC. Hillary Clinton paid rich tributes to the services rendered by P&G around the world. ...

The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Procter & Gamble with 13th Annual Secretary of State Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) on January 18, 2012 for the company’s exceptional corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts in Pakistan and Nigeria at a ceremony held in Washington DC. Hillary Clinton paid rich tributes to the services rendered by P&G around the world. ...

Un kamikaze a tué au moins trois personnes dimanche matin en projetant son véhicule bourré d'explosifs contre une église de Jos , dans le centre du pays.Articles en rapportLa prison de Bagram transférée aux AfghansDéfense : François Hollande ne souhaite pas de «fractures»Russie : l'opposition cherche à rebondirGaza : un raid israélien provoque un accès de violenceUn an après le tsunami, le Japo...

ROME (Reuters) - A diplomatic row broke out between London and Rome on Friday over Britain's failure to inform the Italian government before launching a botched hostage rescue mission in Nigeria.

David Cameron was engulfed in a diplomatic row with Italy after ordering the failed rescue attempt of two hostages in Nigeria without telling Rome.

HOSTAGE was on verge of being rescued by special forces when he was executed

An Italian and British hostage were killed by their captors in Nigeria who claimed ties to al-Qaeda

Nigeria faces an uphill battle in removing fuel subsidies that kept gasoline  cheap, but critically hampered the country's development.

[[368018]] KANO (Nigeria) (AFP) : L'attaque d'un poste de police de Gombe, dans le nord-est du Nigeria, par des militants islamistes présumés a fait au moins 14 morts dans cette région en proie à des troubles, ont déclaré samedi des témoins. Selon des habitants, le poste a été entièrement brulé...

Series of explosions shakes Gombe town; Islamist sect suspected to be behind attacks.

UNLESS YOU were doing business in Nigeria – or had run into a spot of bother there – during recent decades, the name Francis Cecil Quinn will hardly be familiar. He was Ireland’s Honorary Consul-General in Lagos for many years until his death in 2010.

Militante Islamisten einen Anschlag auf einen Markt im nigerianischen Maiduguri verübt. Nach mehreren Explosionen kam es zu Schusswechseln, zahlreiche Menschen starben.

Chinese company Sinoma has completed a $1 billion cement plant in Nigeria that will provide the country with a new export industry.

Nigerian authorities have thrown out fines totalling $235m against British Airways and Virgin Atlantic.

Under the aegis of their nonprofit, eHealth Nigeria, Castle and Thompson have built a digital records system meant to eventually serve healthcare facilities across northern Nigeria, but it doesn't use the sort of specialized health care software in U.S. or even everyday database software. There's no Kaiser software. And no Microsoft. The system is based on OpenMRS, an open source health records...

Le lundi 16 janvier, une plateforme pétrolière a explosé au large des côtes du Nigeria.histoires liéesLa Chaîne thermale du Soleil, d´exploitant à propriétaire des thermes de Saint-AmandLa région en ordre de marche contre les changements climatiquesPour le préfet du Pas-de-Calais, les camions n´ont pas de problème avec les radars aux feuxLes chantiers et les marchés gelésSNCF : 350 passagers ob...

En test à Liège depuis la semaine dernière, Imoh Ezekiel vient du 36 Lion FC, un club de Lagos, la capitale du Nigeria. Le joueur de 18 ans sera dans un premier temps vers...lire la suite

This has been a tournament that has restored the joy to African soccer. Without the traditional powers of Cameroon, Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt, it is as if a great weight both of expectation and fear has been lifted. Only Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana are playing with the albatross of favoritism around their necks, and both have been notably cautious in their opening matches; everybody else seem...

Der in der nigerianischen Stadt Kano verschleppte Mann ist ein Mitarbeiter des Baukonzerns Bilfinger Berger. Ein Krisenstab ermittelt die Hintergründe der Entführung.

Ob ein ursprünglich marginaler Kult es tatsächlich geschafft hat, die Regierung so weit gegen die Wand zu drücke,n ist alles andere als klar. Wie immer ist es vielleicht doch etwas komplizierter. Das ist Nigeria, da ist eigentlich nichts einfach. Neben den Religionen, welche die Situation sicher nicht einfacher machen spielen auch diverse Ethnien und deren Rivalitäten und Verteilungskäm...

Realmente el descortés fue el diplomático de Nigeria, que ni siquiera hizo amago de saludar a la princesa Letizia y no se sabe muy bien la razón. Pero el que ha salido en los informativos y en los 'zappings' de televisión es el del Congo. En su estreno en el cargo, a Óscar Matondo le tocó acudir a la recepción que La Zarzuela ofreció el martes al cuerpo diplomático. Al llegar al besamanos se hi...

Gerade Entwicklungsländer sollten fossile Energie nicht subventionieren, sagt Unep-Chef Achim Steiner. Besser, den Armen gezielter zu helfen und Erneuerbare auszubauen.

The warning comes in the wake of a series of co-ordinated bomb blasts that left 178 people dead in the northern city of Kano on Friday. The attacks were carried out by the radical Islamist group Boko Haram.

The Times Editorial: Nigeria has long been plagued by incidents of sectarian violence in its mainly Muslim north, strikes in its big cities and sporadic unrest and kidnappings in the oil-rich Niger delta.

An Indian was killed & six Indians, including two children, were injured in a terror attack in the Nigeria that left over 150 people dead, said authorities.

Massive gap between fuel imported and consumed; critics of subsidy say fuel smuggled abroad at big profit

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Police: Islamist sect kills 8 at beer parlor in north Nigeria, including 4 police officers. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Read full article >>

Designating Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist group will only inflame anti-Americanism among Nigerian Muslims.

Wien (OTS) - Die Lebenserwartung der Neugeborenen 2012 gehört dank des Lebensstandards in Österreich zu den höchsten in Europa: im Durchschnitt liegt sie bei 81 Jahren. Die Allianz skizziert in ihrer Prognose einen möglichen Lebenslauf des Neujahrsbabys, der vom Kindergarten über Nigeria ...

Why the Christmas Day bombings in Nigeria could be the harbinger of much worse to come.

Le nord-est du Nigeria, c’est loin. On ne peut le nier. Mais les minorités chrétiennes d’autres régions ou pays majoritairement musulmans, à tous égards plus proch...lire la suite

Mutmaßliche Islamisten haben in Nigeria mehrere Anschläge auf Kirchen verübt und dabei mindestens 28 Menschen getötet. Das folgenschwerste Attentat mit 27 Todesopfern ereignete sich am ersten Feiertag nahe der Hauptstadt Abuja. Die radikalislamische Gruppierung Boko Haram hat sich dazu bekannt.

L'attentat contre une église catholique près d'Abuja au Nigeria qui a fait...

Large numbers of infants and toddlers have died from lead poisoning in Nigerian villages where their parents process gold ore inside their family compounds, according to a report published Tuesday by an international team of researchers. [More]

TOTTENHAM have their eye on Nigeria Under-23s midfielder Raheem Lawal

KANO (AFP) - Bomb attacks by suspected militants Sunday left three people dead in northern Nigeria’s Bauchi State, an official and residents said. The suspected members of the radical Boko Haram sect, armed with heavy machine guns, threw explosives and fired into a police compound in the town of Azare, setting the buildings on fire, residents said. “They came in a large convoy,” resident Usman ...

This is BEYOND awful. We're very sad to report that despite Britain's vow to cut aid for African countries that persecute gays, the Nigerian senate has passed an absolutely deplorable anti-gay bill. Not only does the bill ban same-sex marriages, but it also calls for a 14 YEAR prison sentence "for anyone convicted of homosexuality." Horrendous! Oh, and [...]

Déçu par les atermoiements de l'Union européenne, qui repousse sans cesse son adhésion, Ankara réoriente sa diplomatie vers l'Afrique. En dix ans, les échanges commerciaux ont triplé, tandis que s'intensifiaient les liens avec les capitales du continent noir. / Afrique, Afrique du Sud, Nigeria, (...) / Afrique, Afrique du Sud, Nigeria, Proche-Orient, Soudan, Turquie, Aide au développement, Com...

A four-fold increase in polio is reported in northern Nigeria, with the disease spreading to neighbouring countries, a World Health Organisation official says.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigerian Red Cross: Death toll now more than 100 in north Nigeria radical Muslim sect attacks....

Last month, South Africa docked its naval frigate, the SAS Drakensberg, off the coast of Ivory Coast in a rare, and highly ambiguous, show of force that riled regional African powers and complicated international efforts to compel the country's defeated presidential incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, to yield power. For two months, Ivory Coast's neighbors, led by Nigeria, have mounted a dipl...