Nigeria police to get arms boost
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Nigeria's police are planning to buy 80,000 new firearms ahead of next year's elections, a spokesman says.
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The leader of a militia based in Nigeria's main oil region says he is to meet the president following his threat to attack foreign oil workers.
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The Nigerian army has sent more troops to drive militants from an oil plant they have occupied since they abducted 27 people there at the weekend, a military officer said Tuesday.
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Police say up to 30 armed militants have been killed as a result of clashes in Nigeria&#39;s mountainous border region with Cameroon.
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A powerful Nigerian armed group  threatened in an e-mail to the media on Sunday to resume  attacks on oil facilities and kidnapping of foreigners, ending  a four-month ceasefire.
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NIGERIA LAGOS -- The Nigerian government yesterday disclosed a foiled coup plot, charging four military officers and a civilian with conspiring to topple the government by shooting down a helicopter carrying President Olusegun Obasanjo. Major Hamza al-Mustapha, former chief of personal security to the late military dictator General Sani Abacha, and four others, were each charged with two counts of ...
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Zambia deployed armed police in the capital Lusaka on Sunday amid rising tension after President Levy Mwanawasa overtook the early lead of his populist opponent in the country's election.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 29 -- New Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua vowed in his inaugural address Tuesday to work urgently to quell rising violence in the volatile Niger Delta, a major source of oil exports to the United States.
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The US navy will hold a joint training with the Nigerian army in the African giant&#39;s oil producing Niger Delta region next week, Nigerian defense ministry said Thursday.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has appointed a special adviser on the volatile oil-rich Niger delta, amid a spate of kidnappings of foreign oil workers in the region.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 17 - A government plan to entice Iraq&#39;s biggest Shiite militia to turn in its weapons in return for cash here has brought in enough arms in its first week that Iraqi officials extended
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The African Union on Wednesday agreed to beef up its peacekeeping force in Sudan's western Darfur region and send hundreds of civilian police officers in an effort to end violence that has driven more than 1.5 million people from their homes.
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Zambia deployed armed police in the capital Lusaka on Sunday after President Levy Mwanawasa overtook his opponent's early lead in the election count, prompting allegations of ballot rigging.
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By John Ighodaro, Hector Igbikiowubo, Charles Ozoemena with agency reports. P-HARCOURTâ THE Armed Forces, yesterday, dared an insurgent groupâ Niger Delta Peopleâs Volunteers Forceâ led by Mujahid Dokubo
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Nigerian authorities on Friday stepped up efforts to secure the release of a three-year-old British girl after her kidnappers threatened to kill her unless her father takes her place.
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Nigerian security agents have stepped up efforts to secure the release of four foreign oil and gas workers who were taken prisoner this week in the restive Niger Delta.
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The state of emergency in the central  Nigerian state of Plateau, imposed six months ago to quell  communal violence which killed hundreds, will be lifted on  Thursday, the federal government said on Tuesday.