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German workers kidnapped in Nigeria to be freed

The main militant group in Nigeria said on Thursday that two German workers kidnapped more than a month ago will be freed.

Rights group: 800 000 have been evicted in Abuja

A human rights group said on Thursday that 800 000 residents of the Nigerian capital, Abuja, were forcibly evicted over a four-year period as town planners sought to clear space…

Nigeria militants claim another oil-pipeline bombing

The main militant group behind a string of recent attacks in Nigeria’s southern oil region said on Friday it had sabotaged another pipeline. The Movement for the Emancipation of…

Nigerian militant group announces end to ceasefire

A Nigerian militant group whose attacks have slashed crude production in Africa’s oil giant apparently announced an end to its voluntary ceasefire and vowed a fresh campaign of…

Gunmen occupy oil installation in Nigeria

Unidentified gunmen have occupied an oil pipeline-switching centre in Nigeria and are preventing local security forces from leaving, company officials said on Monday. About two…

Nigerian police say at least 21 dead in poll violence

Nigeria’s national police chief called for calm on Sunday as he announced that preliminary figures showed 21 people were killed in violence during state elections meant to boost…

Captors release nine Chinese oil workers in Nigeria

Hostage takers in Nigeria released nine Chinese oil-worker captives, officials said on Sunday, amid rising violence in Africa’s biggest petroleum producer. More than two dozen…

Abducted S Korean oil workers released in Nigeria

Nine South Korean pipeline workers kidnapped in Nigeria’s restive southern oil region have been released, officials said. The nine Koreans and one Nigerian kidnapped on Wednesday…

DRC’s colonial-era statues wait in graveyard

Up a hill, inside the heavily guarded compound of a former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) dictator, lies a graveyard of Belgian colonial-era statuary. A horse-mounted King…

DRC makes a new beginning

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) held its first multiparty election in more than four decades on Sunday, a colossal democratic exercise many hope will secure an end to…

UN: Militia groups to down arms ahead of DRC elections

Three main militia groups in a strife-torn eastern province have agreed to lay down their arms ahead of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) historic elections this weekend,…

EU blacklist highlights trouble in African skies

Russian-speaking pilots sat coolly behind locked cockpit doors, unaware of the failed air conditioning in the passenger-packed cabin of their geriatric aircraft as it sat on a…

Towers of burning gas: Nigeria’s oil curse

Sooty towers of flame spew into the air, night and day, as excess natural gas from the petroleum industry burns off, buffeting Nigerian villagers with jet-force heat and noise.…

Nigerian hostage-takers call for mediation

Militants holding nine foreign oil-worker hostages called on Tuesday for independent negotiators to mediate among the hostage-takers and a Nigerian federal government they deem…

How mostly Muslim Senegal celebrates Christmas

Hundreds of young men decked with tinsel wander before mostly Muslim Senegal’s mosques, hawking plastic Christmas trees. Women pray to Allah beneath an inflatable Santa Claus…