Nigeria’s military on Wednesday announced the “massive”deployment of troops to its restive northeast, after the president declared a state of emergency in areas where Islamist insurgents have...
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Satellite photographs and witness statements strongly challenge denials by Nigeria's government about mass casualties and damage left behind after fighting between the military and Islamic...
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7 Apr 2013
The attacks centred around the volatile city of Jos, where thousands have been killed since Nigeria became a democracy in 1999.
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24 Mar 2013
Gunmen attacked a prison, set free an unspecified number of prisoners, looted a bank and attacked two open-air taverns, a prison official and police said.
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Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, the revered "father of modern African literature', has died aged 82, his family said yesterday. Best known internationally for his novel Things Fall Apart, which...
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26 Feb 2013
A video appeared on YouTube on Monday of seven kidnapped members of a French family with their abductors, who claimed to be from Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and demanded the release of...
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Six underground tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the US state of Washington are leaking radioactive waste, but there is no immediate risk to public health, Governor Jay Inslee said.
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Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan won election to a second five-year mandate but his rival alleged violations and international observers complained the polls lacked competition.
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A Dutch court rejected a bid by Nigerian farmers to hold Shell responsible for oil damage to their villages, in a case that environmental groups had hoped would set a precedent for global...
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Attackers have stormed a church service in an area of Nigeria’s volatile northeast and killed 15 people in the latest such violence targeting Christians in recent days, an official said on Monday...
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Four expatriates and two Nigerians working for the South Korean construction firm Hyundai Heavy Industries were kidnapped on Monday in southern Nigeria, police said.
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