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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Seeking a way out of their country's political crisis, Zimbabwean government and opposition officials met in South Africa, with the opposition pressing for an end to attacks on its supporters.
FOUR African pilgrims who said they had valid visas for World Youth Day were detained at Sydney Airport and taken to Villawood Immigration Detention Centre after they told immigration officers they intended to seek asylum, said refugee advocates.
Some critics of Umaru Yar'Adua have given the Nigerian president a new nickname: "Baba-go-slow". 
WASHINGTON – 
KHARTOUM (AFP) - A stampede killed 23 people at a Sudanese football stadium on Sunday as a graduation ceremony for youth embarking on their national service was being held, said police and hospital officials.
MONROVIA, Liberia - U.S. Peace Corps volunteers will return to Liberia for the first time since civil war broke out in this West African nation nearly two decades ago, U.S. and Liberian officials said Monday.
HARARE, Zimbabwe - 
The Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has ordered the demolition of a warehouse belonging to his wife, Judith, near the Abonnma Wharf, Port Harcourt.
OIL WELL NO. 1, Nigeria - Three decades after pumping its last drop, the first oil well in Nigeria is marked by a decrepit signboard bearing what would seem an uncontroversial statement:
President Umaru Yar’Adua yesterday called on Nigerians in diaspora to make meaningful contributions to the country in order to achieve the goals of vision 2020.
KIGALI (CGN) - France played an active role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, a report unveiled Tuesday by the Rwandan government said, naming French political and military officials it says should be prosecuted.
The final two paragraphs from George Will's 
The first son of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Gbenga, on Tuesday begged Justice Williams-Dawodu of an Ikeja High Court to dissolve his marriage with his estranged wife, Moji, stressing that the union has “broken down irretrievably”.
HARARE (AFP) - A signature, some handshakes and four days of talks have raised hopes for an end to Zimbabwe's political crisis, but it is uncertain that President Robert Mugabe's regime will cede power in the end.
The selection of a running mate is among the most consequential, most defining decisions a presidential nominee can make. John McCain’s pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says a lot about his decison-making — and some of it is downright breathtaking.
NIGERIA'S oil industry has suffered another major setback. About 120, 000 barrels per day have been shut-in from last Friday's attack on Chevron Nigeria Limited pipeline by militants in the Niger Delta.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in very recent times, is getting a lot of flack and negative press from Nigerians, most of them, as it has turned out, and from personal observation, unnecessary, unwarranted and unfair.
Oprah Winfrey was once turned down when she approached a television station to sell the idea of her now famous Oprah Winfrey Show because she was considered too black and emotional.
All these are the troubles and trails of the sanguine but God will deliver him from them all, this being the favorite verse of a sanguine who like the monk goes to worship goes incessantly in search of merriment. 
Anyone that still thinks that America is the bastion of democracy is naive. Anyone that thinks that