Nigeria denies responsibility for delay in Bakassi pullout
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Nigeria's government denied responsibility for a delay in pulling its forces out of the disputed Bakassi peninsula as a deadline set by the United Nations expired and a new timetable was awaited.
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Nigeria has pulled thousands  of troops out of the Bakassi peninsula ahead of a Monday  deadline for a complete withdrawal, but many residents said  they would resist a handover to Cameroon.
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Togo has refused landing to a plane  carrying a Nigerian team sent to resolve a constitutional  crisis, Nigeria's presidential spokeswoman said on Friday.
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BAGHDAD -- The interim Iraqi government brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election yesterday. And a spokesman for the majority Shiite Muslim community called the date &quot;non-negotiable.
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A Nigerian court on Monday rejected a  legal challenge by the country's main opposition leader against  the landslide victory of President Olusegun Obasanjo in last  year's presidential elections.
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The U.S. military on Thursday denied reports it had killed the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq Abu Ayyub al-Masri.
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Iraqi Islamic party chief says decision to pull out motivated by governmentâs refusal to postpone elections. By Kamal Taha - BAGHDAD.
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President Pervez Musharraf vehemently denied Thursday that Pakistan's military and intelligence agencies were behind Benazir Bhutto's killing, and implied she was partly at fault
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-producing region claim responsibility for the kidnapping of four foreign workers.
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Nigeria will not withdraw its forces from the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula and hand the territory to Cameroon by Wednesday, as it had earlier agreed at UN-brokered talks.
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government Saturday brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election. Talk of delaying the election gained momentum after influential Sunni Muslim politicians urged the
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Officials insisted that Prime Minister Ayad Allawi did not tell President Bush that the elections should be delayed.
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A court in the Nigerian city of Kaduna Monday denied bail to the former governor of southern Delta state James Ibori who is on trial for alleged graft amid protests from supporters outside the court, a local reporter said.
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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 launched an offensive yesterday against a separatist rebel group that has told multinational oil companies to shut their installations by tomorrow ahead of &quot;an all-out war on the Nigerian state&quot;.
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Nigeria's general strike is set to go ahead on Tuesday despite the government's decision to reduce the price of cooking fuel.
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Nigeria may not hand over the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon by Wednesday, local leaders told reporters as they have dragged the federal government to court to prevent it from going ahead.