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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Accused of child kidnap ■ Others take refuge in embassy Three Nigerians accused of kidnapping a child were lynched to death yesterday by an angry mob of young rioters in Bissau, the capital of Guinea Bissau, according to a hospital source. The trio was killed after the disappearance of a young boy yesterday morning in […]
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Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
Libya summoned the US ambassador to the country for questioning on Monday over the weekend capture of a suspected al-Qaeda leader on Libyan territory. Anas al-Liby, wanted over 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was seized in Tripoli on Saturday. Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said ties between his country and the […]
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Africa & World Politics, General Politics, Headlines, Top Stories, Wole Soyinka
Sunday, September 29th, 2013

Saturday, September 28, 2013 How I escaped death in Kenya mall attack -Soyinka advertisement *Nobel laureate, JP Clark, others condemn incident By HENRY AKUBUIRO But for a stroke of luck, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, would have been among the dead in the terror attack that […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, September 28th, 2013
-Vanguard NAIROBI – Pressure mounted on the Kenyan authorities a week after the Nairobi mall carnage, amid accusations Saturday that top brass failed to heed security warnings and questions over the fate of the missing. President Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed not to bow to the Shebab group that claimed the Westgate mall bloodbath […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Wole Soyinka
Saturday, September 28th, 2013
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Friday condemned last Saturday’s terrorist attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, capital of Kenya. The attack led to the death of prominent Ghanaian writer and diplomat, Prof. Kofi Awoonor. In a meeting with journalists at the Freedom Park on Broad Street, Lagos, Soyinka described those who led the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, September 28th, 2013
UNITED NATIONS, – The UN Security Council unanimously passed a landmark resolution Friday ordering the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons and condemning a murderous poison gas attack in Damascus. The major powers overcame a prolonged deadlock to approve the first council resolution on the conflict, which is now 30 months old with more than […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
At least 24 people have been killed in the Sudanese capital Khartoum in clashes sparked by cuts in fuel subsidies, medical sources say. The director of Omdurman hospital told the BBC his staff had seen 21 bodies. Three others died at another hospital. Earlier police fired tear gas at protesters. The unrest began on Monday […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
A UN-backed special court in The Hague is due to rule on an appeal by former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Last May, the court sentenced him to 50 years in prison for aiding and abetting rebels in neighbouring Sierra Leone during the 1991-2002 civil war. He became the first former head of state convicted by […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
Kenya’s investigation into a bloody siege by Islamist militants in Nairobi has been joined by experts from the US, UK, Germany, Canada and Interpol. Forensic experts are combing the Westgate shopping complex for DNA and ballistic clues, Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said. He confirmed that five militants were dead and said the bodies of […]
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Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
Following the terrorist attacks on the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya that left scores of Kenyans and foreigners dead, shopping mall patrons in the country are apprehensive that a similar incident may happen in Nigeria because most of the plazas are not adequately secured. Though activities at most of the malls in Lagos were […]