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 Nigeria, January 2009
Nigeria, February 2009
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Northern Nigeria
Nigeria Delta
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| Feb.6 |
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Poison in teething drug kills 84 children
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| Mar.28 |
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Meningitis epidemic strikes Nigeria, Niger
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| Apr.19 |
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Nigerian militants to free British hostages
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| Apr.29 |
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Doctors target meningitis outbreak
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| May.28 |
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'Angry' Man Utd fan kills four in bus attack
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| Jun.1 |
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Birthday release pledge for hostage
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| Jun.6 |
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Pirates release tugboat held 10 months
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| Jun.8 |
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 Shell to pay $15.5 million to settle claims Royal Dutch Shell will pay $15.5 million to settle a lawsuit against its Nigerian subsidiary by the family of executed Nigerian environmental activist
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| Jun.19 |
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Militants claim bomb attack on oil pipeline
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| Jun.21 |
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Royal Dutch Shell: Oil pipelines attacked
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| Jul.6 |
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Militants claim pipeline blast
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| Jul.9 |
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Rebel Okah 'to be freed' Nigeria is to release militant leader Henry Okah because he has accepted a government amnesty offer
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| Jul.14 |
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Rebels announce 'truce'  Map of Niger Delta Nigeria| The main rebel group in Niger Delta is to observe a 60-day ceasefire in its attacks on the oil industry | |
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| Jul.27 |
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Islamist attacks spread Map of Borno State Nigeria 15 people have been killed after militants staged three attacks in northern Nigeria, taking the total killed in two days of violence to 150
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Security boosted in north Nigeria Map of Borno Nigeria Soldiers have set up road blocks and imposed dusk-to-dawn curfews in affected areas in Yobe, Kano, Borno and Plateau states
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| Jul.28 |
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Militants 'under siege' A group of Islamist militants is barricaded inside a district in the city of Maiduguri, after two days of violence in the country's north
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Nigerian troops shell Islamists Nigerian troops have been shelling the home of a radical leader in the northern city after at least 140 deaths in three days
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Hunt for Nigerian Islamist sect Map of Maiduguri Nigeria Nigerian troops are tracking down members of a sect who went on a killing spree in northern cities
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| Jul.29 |
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 Captives freed in Nigerian city The police have freed about 100 women and children being held by a radical Islamist sect in a building in the northern city
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Islamist fighters 'flee' Map of Maiduguri Nigeria Members of a Nigerian radical sect have fled the northern city of Maiduguri after the military overran their enclave
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| Jul.30 |
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Captured leader of militant sect is dead Map of Borno Nigeria| Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of a fundamentalist Islamist sect who was initially reported captured by the Nigerian military, is dead | |
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| Jul.31 |
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Row over militant killing| The commander of the operation against the militant group: Islamic sect leader Mohammed Yusuf was alive when he was captured | |
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| Aug.2 |
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700 die in fighting in northern Nigeria The fighting in the town of Maiduguri began with attacks by the Muslim militants on police and government targets, starting a week ago
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| Aug.12 |
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  Clinton: Al Qaeda seeks foothold in Nigeria U.S. Secretary of State visited Nigeria, warning it could be a target for al Qaeda
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Nigeria 'offended' by sci-fi film The government is asking cinemas to stop showing a science fiction film, District 9, that it says denigrates the country's image
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| Oct.4 |
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Senior rebels disarm in oil-rich Delta Farah Dagogo and Akete Tom, both field commanders for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, laid down their weapons
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| Oct.15 |
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 Massive lake Chad could dry up Up to 30 million people are facing 'a humanitarian disaster' as one of Africa's biggest lakes shrinks. By 2001, it covered less than one-fif...
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 Amnesty calls on Nigeria to arrest alBashir The human rights group is calling on Nigeria to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir if he attends an African Union Summit there
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| Nov.14 |
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Nigeria edge out Tunisia
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| Dec.20 |
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55 dead, 38 injured in truck crash A truck carrying fertilizer crashed into a crowd of people in northern Nigeria
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| Dec.26 |
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Nigerian accused of attacking US plane  Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, has been charged with attempting to destroy a plane after he tried to detonate a bomb on a passenger jet
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Father alerted US about plane bomber| A top Nigerian banker, the father of 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had voiced concerns to US officials about his son | |
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| Dec.29 |
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Suspect's father met with CIA The father of Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab talked about his son's extremist views with someone from the CIA and a report was prepared
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| Dec.30 |
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US aware 'Nigerian' prepared for attack The US was aware that 'a Nigerian' in Yemen was being prepared for a terrorist attack - weeks before an attempted bombing on a plane
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