Topic: West Africa

Fuel tankers ablaze in Nigeria pile-up

More than a dozen vehicles including three fuel tankers and two mini-buses caught fire on Sunday in a pile-up on a Nigerian highway, the site of a...

Campaign for Presidential Run-Off Begins

Campaigning for the second round of elections kicked off in Guinea on Sunday, with Cellou Dalein Diallo running against veteran opposition leader...

Nigeria 2-0 Madagascar: Super Eagles Fly Past Barea

Nigeria defeated Madagascar 2-0 in their Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match on Sunday at the Calabar Stadium.. . The widely criticised Super...
Abdoulaye Ba, 10, looked right, then left, before timidly approaching the taxi and holding out his hand.. . A 10-year-old begging is nothing new in ...

Woman gets 10 years in jail and Dh50,000 fine

Prosecutors accused O.H. with smuggling and possessing seven packages of cocaine weighing around 7.11 kilogrammes in all. . . Dubai A Nigerian...

Igbo village is 'contact zone' for cultures

Chibuzo Obasi, a bright-eyed teenager from Chicago, is proud of her Nigerian Igbo heritage, if a little perplexed by it.. . . . She's been to...
*Well, he's telling the truth here, and then he's gonna go back to Switzerland and find the joint just swarming with defense contractors and war...
Just when I think the anger and hate can't get much more extreme in some of the comments about religion on my blog I am reminded of how it can get...

Which Pols Should Publicly Boogie?

Politico's Patrick Gavin presents readers with a "dream team" of politicians who should be on "Dancing With the Stars." It's purely a hypothetical...
The Wall Street Journal is peeling back the wrapper on Microsoft Corp.'s expected E3 announcements early next month. While speculation has been...