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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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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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday proposed to give a greater role to African Union (AU) troops in restoring peace to Sudan&#39;s Darfur region on the eve of talks between the Sudanese government and rebels.
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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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Text of report by Radio Nigeria from Abuja on 19 February  The Japanese government is to assist Nigeria in the installation of radio broadcasting facility.
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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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The African Union agreed Wednesday to boost the number of peacekeepers in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region and send a contingent of civilian police to monitor efforts to end violence that has driven more than 1.5 million people from their homes.
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Nigeria's oil militants say they are ready for dialogue with the new president, if certain conditions are met.
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ABUJA  - Nigeria braced for a nationwide strike as the country&#39;s top union leader emerged from secret police custody determined to pursue labour&#39;s opposition to President Olusegun Obasanjo&#39;s economic reforms.
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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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NEW YORK  - The African Union can quickly mobilize up to 5,000 troops to help end the looting and killing in western Sudan, but it needs hundreds of millions of dollars to deploy the force and so far it's received just &#36;20 million, says Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Nigeria is working to soon restore losses in oil production because of militant attacks on some pipelines, the country's finance minister said Tuesday.
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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.
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Liberia's police, who have been unarmed for three years, are being allowed to carry weapons again.
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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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An African Union force in Sudanâs western Darfur region could help disarm insurgents and pro-government militias accused of killing civilians, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said before the start of AU-sponsored peace talks today between the
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ABUJA, Nigeria Huge quantities of arms and ammunition have poured into Sudan&#39;s Darfur region in the past two weeks and the government is poised for a major military offensive, the African Union said Friday.