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  • Woman jailed for smuggling baby 17 May 2008 09:05 GMT
    ... London - A Nigerian-Swedish woman who smuggled a baby from Nigeria ... dual nationality, she knew that as an European Union citizen working in Britain she would be ... child. She claimed she had returned to Africa in 2006 to give birth and now ...

  • Why Yar' Adua, Nigeria's head of state and super rich Nigerians Love Germany's Wiesbaden 17 May 2008 07:32 GMT
    ... mankind can contrive. And Wiesbaden the city Nigerian officials have been in love with for about ... concerns like Deutsche Bank, the European Union’s (EU) Central Bank and crowd pullers like the ... windows of their apartments than anywhere else. Africans are more at home in Hamburg. More ...

  • Govt to extend run-off deadline by ninety days 16 May 2008 20:48 GMT
    ... imposed by the United States and the European Union countries be lifted. SPECULATION has been swirling ... to Marwick Khumalo head of the Pan African observer mission to the March elections, ZEC ... Regional diplomatic pressure intensified this week with Nigeria chorusing growing calls for a reasonable time ...

  • RPT Oil hits new record high near $128/bbl in New York 16 May 2008 17:16 GMT
    ... currencies. The dollar has weakened against the euro after data on Thursday showed U.S. industrial ... previous estimate for 1.4 percent growth. In Nigeria, unknown gunmen have kidnapped the wife of ... kidnappings, have increased long-term supply fears from Africa's largest crude ds1/jlc Copyright Thomson Financial News ...

  • Burkina Faso coach promises hell for home Eagles 16 May 2008 13:31 GMT
    ... The chief coach of Burkina Faso home based national football team, Sidiki ... has vowed to turn the heat against Nigeria™s home based Super Eagles when both teams ... in the return leg of the first African Nations Championship qualifier scheduled to take place ...

  • Oil hits new record high above $127/bbl in New York 16 May 2008 12:51 GMT
    ... currencies. The dollar has weakened against the euro after data on Thursday showed U.S. industrial ... previous estimate for 1.4 percent growth. In Nigeria, unknown gunmen have kidnapped the wife of ... kidnappings, have increased long-term supply fears from Africa's largest crude producer. d.sheppard@thomsonreuters.com ds1/ds1/jlc Copyright Thomson ...

  • The athletes who made money for charities 16 May 2008 12:49 GMT
    ... Given this backdrop, Craig Bellamy's involvement in Sierra Leone, announced yesterday, is truly remarkable. The striker, ... an entire football structure in the benighted west African nation. There would be less surprise if the ...

  • Retreat to the Future? 16 May 2008 12:29 GMT
    ... look at ongoing trade negotiations with the EU which seem to have caused numerous splits ... from their own. (Indeed very recently a West African leader "bit the hand that is meant to ...

  • Oil moves higher on dollar weakness, tight distillate stocks UPDATE 16 May 2008 11:26 GMT
    ... currencies. The dollar has weakened against the euro after data on Thursday showed U.S. industrial ... previous estimate for 1.4 percent growth. In Nigeria, unknown gunmen have kidnapped the wife of ... kidnappings, have increased long-term supply fears from Africa's largest crude ds1/ds1/sal/ds1/jlw Copyright Thomson Financial News ...

  • Dacia Sandero Launched in France 16 May 2008 08:16 GMT
    ... to last years planning. The Maghreb (North West Africa) will also see the introduction on the ... MPI with 90 hp. Prices start at Euro 7,800 for the entry level Sandero and ...

  • Italian police arrest 268 foreigners 16 May 2008 07:58 GMT
    ... to the Naples area. Fifty-three people, mainly Nigerians and Albanians, were immediately expelled from the ... came from Eastern Europe, Albania, Greece, North Africa and China. They face charges ranging from ... excellent." Italy has tried to reassure fellow European Union members Romanians are not being targeted. The ...

  • OPEC cuts forecast for global growth in oil demand in 2008 16 May 2008 06:06 GMT
    ... the Middle East and supply disruptions in West Africa and Europe. The weakening US dollar and ... from the previous month as production in Nigeria and Iraq witnessed disruptions. Gasoline stock-draws in ...

  • Poor medicine for poor people 16 May 2008 05:53 GMT
    ... third of anti-malaria drugs collected in six African cities fail at least one quality test, ... any instance be approved for use on EU citizens?" Louis Michel, the Commissioner for Development ... has reported that drugs produced locally in Ghana are often more expensive than imports from India, China, ...

  • Côte d'Ivoire: Can the Ouagadougou Agreement Bring Peace? 16 May 2008 04:58 GMT
    ... d’Ivoire, which is essential for stability throughout West Africa. Hope was revived when Ivorians saw Soro, ... with the FN under the auspices of Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaoré – the rebels’ ...

  • Rebel with a cause 16 May 2008 04:57 GMT
    ... postings include South America, Southeast Asia and Africa. Raised in Ghana, he became familiar with the expatriate way of life ... and five years later escaped the conservative formality of boarding school to the family home ...

  • Nigeria's Elections: Avoiding a Political Crisis 16 May 2008 04:53 GMT
    ... access the executive summary in French , Nigeria’s democracy faces a crucial test. Presidential, parliamentary ... to other areas, with potential for wider West African destabilisation. The preparatory phases have indicated failings in ...

  • Africa: Continent Made $24.3bn From Tourism in 2007 - Yar'Adua 16 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... of US$ 24.3 billion was derived by Africa from tourism in 2007, says President Umaru ... 733 billion which amounts to 584 billion euro. Yar 'Adua pointed out that Africa has ... tourist products". The president who disclosed that Nigeria is on the right path in tourism ...

  • Nigeria: Fresh Set-Back For Bakassi Treaty 16 May 2008 04:51 GMT
    ... not ratify the Green Tree Agreement between Nigeria and Cameroon signed by former president Olusegun Obasanjo ceding ... to by historians as the balkanization of Africa by Europe. He said clauses 18 and ... the demarcation of the boundaries while the EU and the UK provided another $6 million. ...

  • World commodities 16 May 2008 04:49 GMT
    ... the beginning of 2008. Supply disruptions in Nigeria have helped boost a market that is ... Shortages of alternate fuels in China, South Africa, Latin America and parts of the Middle ... fall from two month highs against the euro after the European Central Banks left interest ...

  • Manufacturing a Food Crisis 16 May 2008 01:36 GMT
    ... food self-sufficiency or food security but what Africanist Deborah Bryceson of Oxford calls "de-peasantization"--the phasing out ... markets. For instance, the very success of Ghana's expansion of cocoa production triggered a 48 ... allowed subsidized EU beef to drive many West African and South African cattle raisers to ruin. ...

  • 'For years African players have been exploited...' 16 May 2008 00:30 GMT
    ... only about Nigeria, Kanu is big across Africa" – Portsmouth midfielder John Utaka. And Nwankwo ... academies across the continent – starting in Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Somalia – because he does ...

  • Italy arrests nearly 400 in crackdown 15 May 2008 23:31 GMT
    ...  mostly foreigners from Romania and North Africa  in a weeklong crackdown on street ... also expelled 53 people, most of them Nigerians or Albanians, the Interior Ministry said. Most ... the country, even though Romania joined the European Union last year. On Thursday, he said he ...

  • Italy's interior minister seeks to reassure Romanian counterpart on security crackdown 15 May 2008 23:26 GMT
    ... _ mostly foreigners from Romania and North Africa _ in a weeklong crackdown on street ... also expelled 53 people, most of them Nigerians or Albanians, the Interior Ministry said. Most ... the country, even though Romania joined the European Union last year. On Thursday, he said he ...

  • Italian anti-crime crackdown nets immigrant Romanians 15 May 2008 22:33 GMT
    ... the past week were Romanian and north African, anti-crime director Francesco Gratteri told a news ... of 53 people have been deported, mainly Nigerians and Albanians, he said. "The operation was not directed ... They could be Italian, from within the EU or outside," Gratteri insisted. Berlusconi's cabinet is ...

  • Miller sees drinkers buying less-expensive beers 15 May 2008 21:56 GMT
    ... Europe, though sales were flat in South Africa. That's where SABMiller lost its deal to ... also expelled 53 people, most of them Nigerians or Albanians, the Interior Ministry said. Most ... the country, even though Romania joined the European Union last year. On Thursday, he said he ...


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