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Thursday - May 3, 2012
11:09 am
West African regional leaders are scheduled to meet in an extraordinary summit in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, Thursday.
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Thursday - May 3, 2012
11:02 am
Maternal healthcare is improving in rural Nigeria thanks to a program to expand the use of midwives. The program could serve as a model for other developing countries.
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Thursday - May 3, 2012
10:58 am
Gunmen opened fire on a cattle market in northern Nigeria late Wednesday, killing at least 34 people while burning it to the ground.
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Friday - Apr 13, 2012
6:40 am
President Jonathan signs 2012 Appropriation Bill into law. He said he will reprimand some heads of MDAs for lobbying National assembly to distort the budget.
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Friday - Apr 13, 2012
6:27 am
David Martin, the European Parliament's rapporteur on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), today announced that he will recommend that Parliament votes against this controversial trade agreement because it does not provide enough guarantees for citizens.
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Friday - Mar 30, 2012
10:38 am
The United Nations human rights office today urged the Government of Chile to pass a law against discrimination, including on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, following the recent killing of a young gay man in the capital, Santiago.
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Friday - Mar 30, 2012
9:41 am
The tombstone marking the grave of Adolf Hitler's parents was removed from an Austrian cemetery this week to deter neo-Nazi commemorations of the German dictator.
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Friday - Mar 30, 2012
9:24 am
West Africa has seen a wave of military coups in recent years that some citizens welcome as jumpstarts for faltering constitutional democracies. Analysts, however, say coups hurt more than they help.
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Friday - Mar 30, 2012
9:10 am
A top official of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said some regional heads of state will soon meet in Ivory Coast to demand a "democracy roadmap" from Mali's military junta.
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Friday - Mar 30, 2012
8:58 am
Suspected members of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram freed 14 inmates from a prison in the northeast state of Yobe late on Wednesday and attacked a police station, police said on Friday, the latest of what have become almost daily attacks.
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