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Nigeria seeks Niger's military support against Boko Haram
ReutersNIAMEY/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria has asked its northern neighbor Niger for help in an offensive against Boko Haram insurgents, as West African states try to cooperate against a spread of Islamist violence. An intelligence source in Niger...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Rebellions, Chad, Western Africa, Islam
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Libya war weapons may be killing central Africa elephants -UN
Reuters* Elephant poaching concern in Cameroon, Chad, CAR, Gabon * Some countries using army troops to hunt down poachers By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, May 20 (Reuters) - Armed groups in central Africa are using powerful weapons, some of which may be...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Ban Ki-moon, Gabon, International Organizations, Muammar Gaddafi
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Nigeria eases curfew in northeast, fights on against Boko Haram
ReutersMAIDUGURI, May 20 (Reuters) - Nigeria relaxed a curfew on Monday in parts of the northeast where its troops are mounting their biggest offensive yet against militants from the Islamist group Boko Haram. The Nigerian military has sent thousands of extra...Tags: Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights, Rebellions, Amnesty International
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Nigeria says has Islamists on defensive
ReutersMAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigeria claimed an early success for its military offensive against Islamist insurgents in the northeast on Monday, saying the militants' activities had been stifled by nearly a week of attacks on their bases. Military officers in...Tags: Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights, American Red Cross, Rebellions
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Cameroon oil production down 8 pct in Q1 2013
ReutersYAOUNDE, May 16 (Reuters) - Cameroon crude production dipped more than 8 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2013 due to technical problems in some of its oil fields, the central African country's National Hydrocarbons Corporation (SNH) said on...Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Petroleum Industry, Energy Resources
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INSIGHT-Nigeria's Islamists staging bolder, deadlier comeback
Reuters* Boko Haram controls territory around Lake Chad * Attacks getting more sophisticated and deadly * Fighters regroup after military crackdown By Tim Cocks BAGA, Nigeria, May 13 (Reuters) - After a crackdown pushed them out of Nigeria's northern cities,...Tags: Seafood and Fishing Industry, Petroleum Industry, North Africa, Religious Conflicts, Rebellions
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Mountain Grove High School band members donate old uniforms
dhodges@ky3.comMOUNTAIN GROVE, Mo. - The Mountain Grove Band is looking stylish with new band uniforms, but their old uniforms are still getting lots of attention. The band donated its uniforms to a mission in Cameroon, Africa where a group of primary school...Tags: Africa, Human Interest
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The world within Vanessa Williams
Most of us are curious about our family lineage. For Vanessa Williams, who recently took part in the show "Who Do You Think You Are" and explored her family's history, the task was both surprising and informative. Here, she talks about what she learned...
Tags: Ghana, Chemical Industry, Italy, Togo, Finland
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Journalist Agnes Taile, Fighting Corruption in Cameroon, Tells of Abduction
ReutersApr 27 (TheWrap.com) - Cameroon, I learned this week, is one of the most corrupt places on earth. And Agnes Taile, a journalist who has recorded the scope and impact of that corruption since she was a teenager, is a one-woman army against it. Taile...Tags: Journalism, Western Africa
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Nigeria officials disagree on death toll in recent fighting
KANO, Nigeria — Local government officials and a military spokesman in Nigeria agreed that security forces and Islamist militants had battled in recent days in the country's far northeast. But they offered widely varying accounts Monday of how...
Tags: Human Rights, American Red Cross, Chad, Politics, Nigeria
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French family freed after being held hostage in Nigeria
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A family of French tourists, including four children, held hostage by an Islamist militia in northern Nigeria has been freed, according the French and Cameroonian officials. Tanguy Moulin-Fournier, his wife Albane,...
Tags: Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, France, Francois Hollande
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Dan Turner dies at 49; Times editorial writer
Dan Turner, a Times editorial writer for nearly a decade who was known for his sharply witty observations on a broad range of subjects, died Saturday at his Los Angeles home. He was 49. The cause was pancreatic cancer, which was diagnosed two years ago,...
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