Nigeria

Nigeria

• US Supreme Court limits suits over foreign abuses

  The Supreme Court on Wednesday drastically limited the ability of foreign victims of human rights abuses to use American courts to seek accountability ... 

• Nigeria sets up Islamic extremist amnesty group

  Nigeria formed a panel that will create an amnesty program for Islamic extremists to try to quell a bloody guerrilla campaign of bombings and ... 

• Nigeria reporters face criminal charges for story

  Prosecutors filed criminal charges Tuesday against two journalists at a Nigerian newspaper over a story they published on alleged plans by the ... 

• Violence in central Nigeria villages kills 10

  Leaders in two villages in central Nigeria say at least 10 people have been killed in attacks between the Christians and Muslims living there. 

• Nigeria violence worries US religious commission

  The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has warned that ongoing violence between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria exposes the ... 

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  Hundreds arrested in Nigeria immigrant raids

  The buses crammed full of young men leave each afternoon from this busy market in Nigeria's largest city, some with bruises around their faces and ... 

• World sea piracy down 35 percent in first quarter

  World sea piracy fell 35 percent from a year ago in the first quarter of 2013, with the spotlight shifting to West Africa as navies helped keep ... 

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  AP PHOTOS: Nigeria's forgotten railroad history

  Train horns now sound again across Nigeria's lush south and the encroaching desert of its north, but the history of the nation's 100-year-old railroad ... 

• Radical Islamic group rejects Nigeria peace effort

  The leader of the Islamic extremist network Boko Haram apparently has refused to take part in any possible amnesty deal offered by Nigeria's ... 

• 11 killed in central Nigeria village attacks

  Officials in central Nigeria say at least 11 people have been killed in ongoing fighting between Christian and Muslim villagers in the region. 

• At least 36 killed in southwest Nigeria bus crash

  An official says at least 36 people have been killed in a bus crash in which a gasoline tanker exploded in southwest Nigeria. The explosion happened ... 

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  Abandoned Nigeria national theater eyed in renewal

  Nigeria's iconic National Theatre rises out of the brackish swamps of Lagos near its islands, a massive concrete and marble structure resembling a ... 

• 18 killed in head-on bus crash in central Nigeria

  Authorities say 18 people have been killed in a head-on collision between two buses in central Nigeria. Jonas Agwu, a spokesman for Nigeria's Federal ... 

• Witness: 19 killed in central Nigeria attack

  A witness says at least 19 people have been killed after gunmen raided a village in central Nigeria in the latest unrest in the region. The witness ... 

• Nigerian military: Soldiers raid home, 14 killed

  Nigeria's military says soldiers have attacked a home believed to harbor Islamic extremists, an assault that killed 14 people. Capt. Ikedichi Iweha ... 

• Attacks leave more than 50 dead in central Nigeria

  Attacks on villages surrounding a central Nigerian city at the heart of unrest between Christians and Muslims have killed more than 50 people this ... 

• Police: British hostage taken in Nigeria released

  A British man abducted in Nigeria's largest city has been released by his kidnappers, a police spokeswoman said Thursday, as other foreigners have ... 

• Nigerian police: Expatriate kidnapped is British

  A British businessman was abducted Saturday in Lagos, a rare case of expatriate kidnapping in this West African nation's commercial center, Nigerian ... 

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  S.Africa: Nigerian 2010 bomb suspect gets 24 years

  A South African court sentenced a Nigerian to 24 years in prison on Tuesday after finding him guilty of masterminding twin car bombings in Nigeria. 

• 120 inmates freed in Nigeria attacks, 25 die

  Officials say gunmen attacked a remote town in Nigeria's northeast, killing 25 and freeing 120 inmates. Adamawa State's head of prisons, Andrew Barka, ... 

• 9 dead, 90 missing, 29 survive Nigeria boat mishap

  An official says a search continues after a boat carrying 128 people capsized off Nigeria six days ago. The head of the Cross River State Emergency ... 

• Nigeria: Suicide car bomb death toll rises to 41

  At least 41 people died in a suicide car bomb that struck a bus station in a Christian neighborhood in Kano, northern Nigeria's busiest commercial ... 

• At least 16 killed in northern Nigeria explosion

  At least 16 people were killed in an explosion that hit a bus station in Kano in northern Nigeria, a medic said Monday in the latest violence to hit ... 

• French hostages held by Nigerian sect in new video

  A video surfaced Monday showing a man who appeared to be a French hostage held by Islamic extremists with six other family members kidnapped on Feb.