He promised ‘renewed hope’ but faced questions from rivals about his health, past graft accusations and ties to outgoing president Muhammadu Buhari
Suspected Farc guerrillas have captured 23 Colombian oil contractors carrying out exploration work for Canada’s Talisman Energy.
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/ 30 October 2010
US and Nato troops killed about 50 insurgents during attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, calling in air strikes to repel an assault on an outpost.
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/ 23 January 2010
Rescuers pulled two barely alive survivors from the rubble of Port-au-Prince on Friday as hungry and homeless Haitians clamoured for food.
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/ 23 December 2009
Colombia said on Tuesday Farc guerrillas slit a state governor’s throat hours after they kidnapped him during a brazen raid.
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/ 28 September 2009
Honduras’ de facto government on Monday resisted pressure from opponents and the international community over ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
The Organisation of American States prepared to suspend Honduras on Saturday after a caretaker government refused to restore President Manuel Zelaya.
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/ 16 February 2009
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez won a referendum vote on Sunday that lets him stay in power for as long as he keeps beating his rivals.
The founder and chief commander of Colombia’s Farc rebel force, Manuel Marulanda, has died after more than 40 years fighting the state from jungle and mountain camps. If confirmed, the death of Manuel Marulanda, who organised the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrillas in the 1960s, would be the heaviest blow yet to Latin America’s oldest insurgency.
The presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela ended a border dispute on Friday with a summit handshake after a week of regional diplomacy in the face of hostile rhetoric and troop build-ups.”And with this … this incident that has caused so much damage [is] resolved,” leftist Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said.