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/ 25 February 2005
As African Catholics prayed for the health of Pope John Paul II on Friday, speculation mounted that the ailing pontiff could soon be succeeded by Africa’s first pope in more than 1 500 years. With church congregations rising across Africa, Asia and Latin America, observers see a global church that is increasingly oriented towards the south.
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/ 9 September 2004
African Union-sponsored talks on the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region hit another hurdle on Wednesday as the Khartoum government rejected a draft protocol on the key issues of security and disarmament. ”This draft, the way it had been prepared, contradicts obligations that we have already undertaken,” said Sudan’s deputy foreign affairs minister Najeib Abdelwahab.
UN urged to act on Sudan
Two weeks after a police squad raided a group of fetish shrines in the dense jungle of southern Nigeria, dozens of partially decomposed bodies still littered the groves of Okija’s ”evil forest”. Open wooden coffins lay abandoned in the dense undergrowth as spooked cops continued an investigation which has scandalised Nigeria.
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/ 22 January 2003
John Adedayo used to be a diligent and punctual worker. For five years he left his home in the crowded Lagos suburb of Agbado-Ijaye at 5am every day, until the city’s crippling transport snarl-ups lost him his job.