Topic: West Africa
Two fuel tanker fires in the Nigerian capital triggered panic Wednesday, with the country on edge over bombings claimed by Islamists, but authorities said the blazes were not caused by attacks.The fires broke out in two different areas of Abuja, with thick ...
A top US official on Wednesday sought to play down fears that the conflict that toppled Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi had allowed extremists to get their hands on weapons used there.US ambassador Daniel Benjamin, the US State Department's coordinator for counter-terrorism, cautioned ...
ABUJA (Reuters) - Two fuel tankers caught fire at separate sites in the Nigerian capital Abuja Wednesday, sending thick black smoke into the sky and seriously injuring at least one person, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said.Witnesses said there was a ...
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe vowed Saturday to help Nigeria in its fight against extremism as the country faces an intensifying Islamist insurgency, mainly in the north where he also visited.The radical Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed credit for a recent ...
A roadside bomb exploded in northern Nigeria's volatile city of Bauchi, injuring four people, the latest in a series of attacks to hit the region in recent months, police said Saturday."There was a bomb blast in Wuntin-dada suburb of the city in ...
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe arrived in Nigeria on Friday for a visit to include talks on cooperating to fight terrorism, with the West African nation hit by scores of recent attacks.Juppe was to meet President Goodluck Jonathan and Foreign Minister Olugbenga ...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A violent Islamist sect responsible for scores of killings in northeast Nigeria is increasingly linking up with global jihadist movements like al Qaeda, a military commander in the area told Reuters Thursday.Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed, a senior military ...
LAGOS (Reuters) - The United States embassy in Nigeria withdrew a bomb threat warning on Thursday on three luxury hotels in the capital Abuja, saying improved security around the hotels and on major highways had reduced the risk.The embassy warned its citizens ...
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's police said on Tuesday they had arrested suspected members of an Islamist sect behind coordinated attacks in the north of the country that killed at least 65 people late last week.Militants Boko Haram said they had carried out ...
The latest deadly attacks by an Islamist sect in northern Nigeria, including multiple suicide bombings, point to the group's growing determination to take on the government, analysts said on Monday.The coordinated attacks that shook Nigeria's northeast on Friday, killing at least 150, ...
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