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Monday, September 30, 2013 - 10:25
When Mahamadou Issoufou was elected President of Niger in March 2011, he inherited a country which lacked many of the basic trappings of a state. A desperately poor, landlocked nation of 17 million straddling the southern edge of the Sahara, Niger has suffered from violent rebellions, chronic famine, cyclical droughts and flash floods, all of which are exacerbated by limited state capacity and decades of failed governance.
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 10:27
President Goodluck Jonathan shocked Nigerians on Sunday when he declared that he did not know if the leader of the dreaded sect, Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, was dead or alive.
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 10:28
Governors of the 19 northern states, Sunday, charged security agencies to do all within their powers to halt the killing of defenceless citizens, and attacks on places of worship and educational facilities especially in the North East, by members of extremist sect, Boko Haram.
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 10:36
Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torching classrooms, the school's provost said, reporting the latest violence in northeastern Nigeria's ongoing Islamic uprising.
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 10:38
Even as last weekend's horrific events in Nairobi were unfolding, a brutal and deadly war was being played out hundreds of miles to the north in Somalia
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 10:40
There is a growing view from Nairobi that al-Shabab’s Westgate Mall attack was an act of desperation
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 10:45
As the international community pours billions of dollars into South Sudan in an effort to make it a viable nation, Western observers are now worried that the armed forces in a country they helped create have been preying on civilians.
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 10:46
The head of the election observer mission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Edem Kodjo, says Saturday's legislative elections in Guinea were "acceptable" despite some inefficiencies at certain polling stations.
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 10:48
Media blackout imposed after Khartoum gripped by anti-austerity demonstrations during week in which dozens were killed
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 10:52
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on the occasion of Nigeria's National Day.