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  • UN refugee chief expresses dismay as Thailand expels thousands of Lao Hmong 29 Dec 2009 06:11 GMT
    ... Ukraine have been taking part in a United Nations-backed practical training programme to enhance the ... died in the blaze. ... After a Nigerian national who claims to have trained with ...

  • Africa Yes We Can but only If We are United 29 Dec 2009 01:51 GMT
    ... looted as is currently going on in Nigeria, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, DRC, Angola, Congo where ... have one trade policy. Currently at the United Nations there are more countries from Africa ...

  • In wake of airline incident: Drumbeat for US war in Yemen 29 Dec 2009 06:32 GMT
    ... abortive Christmas Day attempt by a 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to detonate a bomb ... the most secretive Special Operations commandos have begun training Yemeni security forces in counterterrorism tactics.” ... systematically suppressed political dissent. Last month, the United Nations Committee against Torture issued a stinging report ...

  • The Life And Times of Maryam Babangida [analysis] 29 Dec 2009 15:11 GMT
    ... for her husband. She was President of Nigerian Army Officers Wives Association (NAOWA), 1984-1985 and ... Nigeria signing as a party to several United Nations conventions on elimination of discrimination against ...

  • WHAT AT ALL IS INSIDE THESE TERRORISTS' MINDS? By CAMERON DUODU 29 Dec 2009 15:13 GMT
    ... result of the failed attempt by the Nigerian student, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, to detonate ... in 2003, the telephone of the then United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Kofi Annan, was bugged by ... in bugging Mr Annan's office in the run up to war with Iraq. "The UK ...

  • Thousands of Congolese refugees flee fresh fighting 29 Dec 2009 17:21 GMT
    ... in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said. The refugees told UNHCR ... after meeting UN special envoy and former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo is due to visit ...

  • The year that was 29 Dec 2009 01:31 GMT
    ... nuclear war in defiance of new unanimous UN Security Council sanctions. UN and humanitarian agencies call ... killed in a radical Islamic uprising in Nigeria. Venezuela revokes licences of dozens of radio stations. ...

  • Fakeye, Art Icon, Dies At 71 29 Dec 2009 02:50 GMT
    ... Lagos — Nigeria's foremost wood-sculptor, Lamidi Olonade Fakeye, is dead. He ... was buried yesterday at his home town Illa-Orangun according to Muslim rites. The late Fakeye, ... faith. Only last year, he bagged the UNESCO Living Human Treasure Award alongside another visual ...

  • Fighting terrorism with tourism Senior Iraqi official looks to safeguard cultural treasures, develop tourism 29 Dec 2009 04:32 GMT
    ... dealt with by a special committee of UNESCO. We witnessed the use of heavy equipment ... over fifty countries around the globe; from Nigeria to Ecuador; Kazakhstan to India. He is ...

  • The Faruk Mutallab Saga - Now We Must Look At Ourselves Critically [opinion] 29 Dec 2009 10:17 GMT
    ... times. My second reaction was more worrying. Nigerians, especially Muslims, will have to endure more humiliating ... and a feeling of hopelessness we had begun to reject the modern world itself, and some, ...

  • CAIR: Mich. Muslims to Condemn Al-Qaeda Involvement in Airline Attack 29 Dec 2009 00:11 GMT
    ... Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), along with Nigerian-American Muslim leaders, will hold a news conference ... worldwide to repudiate those whose unlawful and un-Islamic actions tarnish the beautiful faith of Islam," ...

  • Ask The Expert: Will Yemen Become A Major Al-Qaeda Sanctuary? 29 Dec 2009 02:30 GMT
    ... a rebel stronghold (file photo) After a Nigerian national who claims to have trained with Al-Qaeda ... major sanctuary for Al-Qaeda, considering that the UN Security Council recently imposed sanctions against Eritrea for ...

  • Building "Great Green Wall" could thwart Sahara's spread in Africa 29 Dec 2009 08:58 GMT
    ... Abdoulaye Wade told National Geographic News during UN's Copenhagen climate conference. In many central and ... perished in the harsh desert," he added. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo first proposed the idea of ...

  • Africa-wide "Great Green Wall" to Halt Sahara's Spread? 29 Dec 2009 12:30 GMT
    ... rainfall to a trickle, according to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Crops ... to Do What We Have to Do" Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo first proposed the idea of ...

  • WestJet, Jazz fall in first trading since higher security put in place 29 Dec 2009 15:55 GMT
    ... Ltd. (TSX:WJA) and Jazz Air Income Fund (TSX:JAZ.UN) felt a downdraft Tuesday in the first ... security needs. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, of Nigeria was charged Saturday with trying to blow up a ...


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