The chairperson of the African Union has rejected the group’s appointment of a mediator for crisis-hit Togo, saying he wasn’t properly consulted, officials said on Monday. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who currently holds the rotating AU chairmanship, has led West African efforts to resolve the Togo crisis.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo launched a major blood bank and transfusion project on Thursday, donating blood at a new centre that hopes to begin cleaning up the Aids-contaminated blood supply in Africa’s most-populous nation. The centre is spearheaded by a United States charity called Safe Blood for Africa.
ChevronTexaco’s Nigerian subsidiary said it would overhaul its aid projects in the country’s oil-rich south after finding much of the tens of millions of dollars spent yearly was fueling violence and wasted by corruption. ChevronTexaco said its projects have stoked communal jealousy, contributing to unrest that has cost the company over half a billion dollars.
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/ 4 February 2005
Nigeria’s army quelled a demonstration at one of the country’s main oil-export terminals on Friday, said the platform’s operator, ChevronTexaco, and activists claimed two protesters were shot dead. Soldiers in the Escravos terminal opened fire on the demonstrators, killing two, said Helen Joe, a militant leader.
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/ 2 February 2005
Riding through a Nigerian forest on motorbikes, four white Zimbabwean farmers are checking out the land they’ll soon settle on, hoping to start a new life here after being chased off their farms. Since 2000, some of the thousands of farmers forced off their land have moved to neighbouring Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia.
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/ 17 December 2004
Civilians looted shops and patients lay unattended in a clinic in the front-line town of Kanyabayonga on Thursday after days of fighting between renegade soldiers and troops loyal to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) government. At least 25 000 people have fled the area over the past three weeks.
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/ 13 December 2004
Former rebels have blocked Congolese troops from reinforcing positions near its volatile border with Rwanda, after clashes between the two sides on Sunday, the region’s military chief said on Monday. Colonel Etienne Bindu, military chief of the North Kivu province, said the two sides are, ”are watching each other like cat and dog” in the town of Kanyabayonga, the scene of the fighting, he said.
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/ 12 December 2004
Rival factions in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) post-war army fought gunbattles in the vast nation’s restive east on Saturday, killing several people, a top military official said. ”There have been several deaths, but the number has not yet been established,” army Colonel Etienne Bindu said
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/ 8 December 2004
Hutu militias have kidnapped at least 15 people in remote villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the past four days, demanding ransoms in a growing wave of militia violence, a United Nations spokesperson said on Wednesday.
UN finds Rwandan troops in DRC
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/ 27 October 2004
A second day of peace talks on the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region broke off early when rebels refused face-to-face talks with the government until the African Union meets separately with both sides to draft an agenda. Delegates said the African Union-brokered talks in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, would resume on Wednesday.