Dream of free Biafra revives in southeast Nigeria
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Down a dark, narrow alley in  the heart of West Africa&#039;s biggest market, sheltered in his  tiny wooden stall, a trader draws out a wad of crisp bank notes  printed with the words &quot;One Biafran Pound.&quot;
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Nigeria are relishing the chance to play the role of party wreckers when they tackle Ghana in Sunday's African Nations Cup quarter-final.
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LAGOS : The head of a separatist movement in Nigeria&#39;s southern oil-rich Niger Delta, Mujahid Dokubo Asari, announced on Tuesday evening that he would meet President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abuja on Wednesday.
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If the obituary pages of Western newspapers pride themselves on sobriety, the opposite holds true in Nigeria.
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AGADEZ, Niger  - When Mohamed Latey shot dead the  local police lieutenant and stole his truck, he believed he was  fighting for the freedom of his fellow nomads in the Sahara.
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Once a mecca for aspiring African-American professionals, local leaders want to revive Atlantaâs Sweet Auburn neighborhood.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Christophe Gnonrou Sibi, 28, drives a cab and lives in a shantytown on the edge of this muggy West African city, Ivory Coast's commercial capital.
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The news reports streaming out of Abidjan, Ivory Coast&#39;s once shining metropolis, seem like a throwback to a bygone era: white men and women cowering in their homes
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Ivory Coast's main city begins returning to normal after anti-French riots following a call for people to return to work.
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A day after the Zulu parade rolled down his street Â and more than two years after Hurricane Katrina flooded it Â Eddie Handy was beginning to feel at home again.
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Adams Oshiomhole, the president of Nigeria&#39;s main union body, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), is missing. He was picked up by secret police at the airport of the capital, Abuja, early on Saturday.
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Four foreign hostages are freed unharmed in oil-rich southern Nigeria, after several weeks in captivity.
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A vital bridge linking Sierra Leone with Liberia - both recovering from civil wars - is officially re-opening.
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Militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria free two Italian workers kidnapped last week.
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Acuil Bangol was separated from his son for years by southern Sudan&#39;s civil war. On Friday, he finally got a chance to tell Sudanese government and rebel leaders
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Malaysia&#39;s former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim has come home to a rock star&#39;s welcome Sunday. He returned from undergoing back surgery in Germany following his release from prison last month.
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A new round of peace talks between the Sudanese government and rebels from the Darfur region is set to re-open on Friday in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.