Nigeria to End Plateau State of Emergency on Thursday
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A state of emergency declared in the Nigerian state of Plateau six months ago will end on Thursday, the government said in a statement on Tuesday.
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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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The Iraqi government declared a 60-day state of emergency throughout most of the country yesterday. Violence by insurgents in retaliation to the impending US assault on Fallujah continued with widespread bombings and assassinations.
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Nigeria has formally handed over the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon in compliance with a World Court ruling and UN-brokered deadline, ending a 13-year feud between Abuja and Yaounde.
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Iraq's interim government on Sunday declared a state of emergency for 60 days, the spokesman for interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi announced.
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A general strike in Nigeria which has raised fears over oil supply from the world's seventh largest exporter, will likely end its first phase on Thursday, union leaders said.
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Nigerian unions on Monday suspended a general strike due to start on Tuesday after the government agreed to reduce domestic fuel prices, a union leader said.
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Between 200 and 300 expatriates were expected to have been flown out of the west African state by tonight after the British army was called in to evacuate them.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Iraq's interim government  declared martial law on Sunday after insurgents killed 23 Iraqi  policemen and set off blasts in Baghdad in a fresh show of  force before a planned U.S. offensive on Falluja and Ramadi.
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BAGHDAD - Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister said yesterday that efforts to resolve the conflict in Fallujah peacefully had entered their final phase and warned that &quot;our patience is running thin,&quot; vowing to clear the city of militants who have carried out
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A four-day general strike ends in Nigeria but unions threaten more action in two weeks if petrol prices stay high.
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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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Nigerian labor leaders say they will end a four-day old general strike called to protest rising fuel prices in Africa&#39;s largest oil-producing nation.
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afrol News, 30 September - A truce was yesterday reached between the Niger Delta militia and the federal government of Nigeria after talks between the militia leader and President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Iraqâs interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi declared on Sunday a state of emergency across Iraq for sixty days after a wave of violence killed more than 50 people in the past two days.
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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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Iraq's interim government announced a state of emergency on Sunday as the country braced for a massive U.S. military assault on Fallujah. Latest insurgent attacks kill 21 police officers in towns west of Fallujah.