The last stage of US President George Bush’s first tour of Africa will be a politically risky foray into the troubled world of Africa’s number one oil producer: Nigeria.
When Nigeria, proud holder of the title of the most populous nation in Africa, goes to the polls this weekend it will be watched keenly from across a troubled continent, analysts say.
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/ 27 February 2003
Scotland Yard detectives hunting the killers of a young African boy whose headless and dismembered body was found floating in the River Thames in London were due to arrive in Nigeria on Thursday.
As the Lagos-bound Boeing 727 drops through the thick cloud covering Nigeria’s swampy coastal lowlands, a nervous passenger crosses himself and says a brief prayer. The concerned business traveller is just hoping the flight touches down safely, but he might also find room in his prayers for Nigeria’s beleaguered private aviation sector. On May 4 […]
Washington’s pointman on Africa is to meet Nigerian leaders on Thursday, making a high-level visit at a time when African oil is more than ever in the thoughts of US strategic planners.
A troika of Commonwealth leaders failed to agree how to deal with President Robert Mugabe, saving Zimbabwe from a threat of expulsion from the organisation.