Yar'Adua takes helm of crisis-ridden Nigeria
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Umaru Yar'Adua took office as president of Nigeria on Tuesday, promising to tackle a catalogue of crises in Africa's most populous nation and conceding that his own election was "not perfect".
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Umaru Yar'Adua will be sworn in as Nigeria's new president, after the outgoing head made a final speech to the nation.
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Nigerian rebel leader Mujahid Dokubo-Asari said he arrived in the capital Abuja on Wednesday for talks with President Olusegun Obasanjo after his group threatened a new offensive against troops in the oil-producing Niger delta and
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A former soldier, rebel and warlord was sworn in Thursday as the new president of Somalia in the latest attempt to unite the nation under a central government for the first time since 1991.
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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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Police were out in force in Ibadan, the capital of the southwestern Nigerian state of Oyo, amid fears of violence over the reinstatement of sacked governor Rasheed Ladoja.
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The crisis in Kenya is set to dominate an African Union summit  in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
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Some misunderstanding led to the brief detention of the leader of the Nigerian umbrella workers&#39; union, the country&#39;s security agency insisted on Saturday, as union officials vowed
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Nigeria's newly sworn-in president says the troubled Niger Delta will receive his "urgent attention".
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Nigeria's president-elect says he will reform the election process - strongly criticised during last month's poll.
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The Federal Government yesterday revealed that security agencies are holding talks in Abuja with the leadership of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), led by Alhaji Asari Dokubo, over the continued unrest in the Niger Delta.
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Nigeria's president is accused by his deputy of awarding contracts to his favourite aides and ministers.
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Chad's president declared a nationwide state of emergency Thursday, telling citizens that tightened controls are needed to restore order after recent rebel attacks.
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma was sworn in as Sierra Leone's president on Monday after winning a run-off vote marked by political tension and some cases of ballot fraud in the war-scarred West African state.
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THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC of Chechnya got a new president Sunday -- but congratulations to Alu Alkhanov, the career police officer taking over the job, don&#39;t really seem to be in order.
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An American was appointed to head U.N. political affairs on Friday after the United States vied for the first time to hold the post that negotiates agreements in a variety of crisis points around the world, the United Nations announced.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Nigeria's new president, Umaru Yar'Adua, was sworn in yesterday, pledging to be a humble "servant-leader" and to reform the electoral process to prevent future fraud, after the elections he won last month were widely condemned by international and local observers.