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  • Kerry in Ethiopia for Security Talks

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Ethiopia for security talks with regional officials and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the African Union. Kerry's visit is expected to include talks on African and Western efforts to fight Islamist extremists in Mali and northern Nigeria. During recent talks with Nigeria's foreign minister, Kerry reaffirmed U.S. support for Nigeria's fight ...

  • Kerry US Wants to Protect Human Rights in Nigeria

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has called on Nigerian authorities to ensure their security forces do not trample on human rights during the government's fight against Boko Haram ...

  • Niger attacks launched from southern Libya Nigers president

    NIAMEY (Reuters) - Islamist militants who carried out simultaneous suicide attacks on an army base and a French uranium mine in northern Niger two days ago came from southern Libya, Niger's president said on ...

  • Killer-friend on the loose ‘He made me a widow nine days after our wedding’

    Ameze …seeks justice It was a pitiable sight when Sunday Vanguard visited the family of the deceased as it was revealed that he wedded his wife according to customs and traditions of the Binis only nine days before the murder to enable him participate properly as a genuine in-law in the burial of his father in-law scheduled for June. Besides, Ameze, the wife of the victim, apart from ...

  • Kerry Nigeria Working to Stop Abuses by Security Forces

    US Secretary of State John Kerry (foreground) speaks at a joint news conference with Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom in Addis Ababa May 25, ...

Movie Review

Blood & Wine

"Blood & Wine" is director Bob Rafelson's fifth collaboration with actor Jack Nicholson, and it is certainly one of the least. A slowly-plotted, mostly uninvolving modern-day Miami film noir, it is also the third (slightly belated) installment in what Rafelson terms an "informal trilogy" that also includes "Five Easy Pieces" (1970) and "The King of Marvin Gardens" (1972). On the surface, "Blood & ... ...

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  • Hostages taken by Islamists rescued Nigerian army

    A handout picture released on May 25, 2013 by the Nigerian military shows members of the Nigerian defence headquarter team inspecting an alleged Boko Haram base in Kirenowa. Nigeria declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states on May 14 as it launched a military offensive to end Boko Haram's four-year insurgency. (Via ...

  • US drones spy on Boko Haram

    Nigerian troops fighting Boko Haram insurgents in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states may have been bolstered by United States drones stationed in Niamey, Niger ...

  • Gunmen kill security operative in Maiduguri

    BY NDAHI MARAMA, MAIDUGURI Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram sect members, Saturday, shot and killed a security official suspected to be a personnel of the Department of Security Servies (SSS) at Ajilari/Gomari airport ward of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. Four people have been killed in the area this week, including a General Manager of a petrol station. Our Correspondent gathered that ...

  • Cameroon plans Egypt-like protests

    Opposition groups, trade unions and Diaspora groups are preparing "Egypt-like" protests in Cameroon tomorrow, 23 February, to call for President Paul Biya to step down. The US Embassy warns of possible ...

  • Nigerian community marches in solidarity as Greenwich leaves tributes to murdered soldier Lee Rigby

    Touching tributes continued to be paid to Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich today, as the community stood united in condemning the soldier's brutal ...

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