Topic: West Africa
ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian opposition party accused its political rivals of sabotage on Tuesday after its vice presidential candidate was forced to make an emergency landing due to a runway invasion by rams and goats.Fola Adeola, vice presidential candidate for the ...
HONOLULU (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday condemned separate "outrageous terrorist bombing attacks" in Egypt and Nigeria and said the United States was prepared to assist both countries in responding to them."The United States extends its deepest condolences to the families ...
Ghana?s main opposition has nominated Nana Akufo-Addo to contest the 2012 presidential vote after he narrowly lost the last election in the west African nation seen as a democratic beacon.President John Atta-Mills defeated Akufo-Addo, representing the New Patriotic Party, in a January ...
US President Barack Obama will Thursday welcome Liberian leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to Washington, the White House said in a statement.The visit by Africa's first female elected head of state will give Obama an "opportunity to discuss a range of bilateral and ...
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's ailing president, in hospital overseas for the past two months, faced mounting pressure on Thursday to end a power vacuum that is increasingly worrying investors.Critics want President Umaru Yar'adua to formally hand over executive powers to his deputy ...
LAGOS (Reuters) - A leading Nigerian human rights lawyer has launched legal action to try to force President Umaru Yar'Adua to hand executive powers to his deputy while he is receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.Femi Falana, who was a prominent pro-democracy ...
Traveling through 7 African nations, Clinton always in shadow cast by US presidentsThey followed her every step of the way. From Kenya to Cape Verde, the personalities and policies of the last three American presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack ...
Nigeria: Expecting a whiff of the ?dollar?? Josie Lebile?-Holo 14 August 2009 The unsettling euphoria around Hillary Clinton at Abuja underlined dimmed expectations that the United State could somehow turn Nigeria around. The diplomatic rhetoric used resonated a clear message ?Nigeria must ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Liberia on Thursday in a show of support for Africa's only female leader, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who has faced calls to quit after a probe into the country's civil war.Clinton arrived in Monrovia to ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Nigeria on Wednesday that corruption was eroding the government's legitimacy and global aspirations, and offered a hand bringing peace to its oil-producing south.On a whirlwind 11-day tour of Africa, Clinton sought closer ties with the ...
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