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File - Fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard during the handover of a Swiss female hostage for transport by helicopter to neighboring Burkina Faso, at a designated rendezvous point in the desert outside Timbuktu, Mali Tuesday, April 24, 2012.
Africa   Mali   Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: 2012 Northern Mali conflict   		 Al Jazeera 
African Union backs Mali troops plan
Wed 14 Nov 2012
| African leaders have endorsed a plan to send a 3,300-strong force to wrest control of northern Mali from Islamist fighters, as fears grow over risks they pose to the region and beyond. | The African... (photo: AP)
Salk Polio Vaccine plaque, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Disease   Photos   Polio   Washington   Wikipedia: Poliomyelitis eradication   Worldwide   		 New Straits/Business Times 
Polio down worldwide, trouble spots remain
Wed 14 Nov 2012
| WASHINGTON: The number of polio cases worldwide reached a record low in 2012, giving experts confidence that the disease can finally be eradicated, according to presentations made Tuesday at a major... (photo: Public Domain / Daderot)
Malians opposing a foreign military intervention to retake Mali's Islamist-held north clash with police as they march in the streets of the capital, Bamako, Mali on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012.  NZ Herald  Sun 11 Nov 2012
West African leaders meet on plan for Mali
| West African leaders meet at an emergency summit to firm up military plans to win back Islamist-held northern Mali, as fears grow over the risks the extremists pose to the region and beyond. | Leade... (photo: AP / Harouna Traore)
Africa   Mali   Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: 2012 Northern Mali conflict  
Boys sit on the remains of a house destroyed by floods in the village of Hadeja, near Dutse in northern Nigeria, Monday Sept. 27, 2010. Farmers in northern Nigeria said Monday they feared their crops were destroyed in weekend floods that started when two swollen dams overflowed and displaced 2 million people. In the nearby village of Gudinchin, rice and corn stalks poked above a fast-moving river that had washed over the fields. A few houses in the village peered above the water, and people had constructed a makeshift embankment out of the remains of mud houses that had washed away.  Huffington Post  Mon 5 Nov 2012
Nigeria Floods Kill Hundreds, Displace 2.1 Million
| Children paddle a canoe along a flooded road near houses after a heavy downpour in Ikorodu, Nigeria. Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) | LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigeria's National Emergen... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Floods   Natural Disaster   Nigeria   Photos   Wikipedia: 2012 Nigeria floods  
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Nigerian police officers stand guard in the area were the military are battling gunmen in Kano, northern Nigeria, Wednesday April 18, 2007. DNA India Fri 2 Nov 2012
Nigerian army kills 30 in militant bastion: Witnesses
| Nigerian troops shot dead at least 30 people during raids in the northeast city of Maiduguri, bastion of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, witnesses and hospital st... (photo: AP / George Osodi)
Boko Haram   Nigeria   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Nigerian Sharia conflict  
Suspected members of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, are detained by the military, in Bukavu Barracks in Kano state, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. BBC News Thu 1 Nov 2012
Nigeria army 'abuses' in Boko Haram crackdown - Amnesty
Nigerian security forces have carried out widespread abuses in their campaign against the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, . | The rights group says in a report that a... (photo: AP / Salisu Rabiu)
Africa   Human Rights   Nigeria   Photos   Wikipedia: Boko Haram  
A Muslim man walks past a church gate decorated with paintings of Jesus Christ in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday April 10, 2005. Winding its way across Africa is an invisible faultline between a mainly Muslim north and a majority Christian south. Across this fro The Daily Telegraph Mon 29 Oct 2012
Christians persecuted throughout the world
The latest bombing in Nigeria shows how Christians are increasingly suffering for their faith – and how their plight is being ignored | Only two days ago, a suicide... (photo: AP Photo )
Christians   Nigeria   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Persecution of Christians   World  
In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 photo, a police officer armed with an AK-47 rifle walks past pedestrians as he patrols a major road in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The radical sect Boko Haram, which in August 2011 bombed the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria, is the gravest security threat to Africa's most populous nation. Irish Times Mon 29 Oct 2012
At least seven die in attack on Nigerian Catholic church
| A suicide bomber rammed an SUV loaded with explosives into a Catholic church holding Mass in northern Nigeria. | At least seven people were killed and more than 100 oth... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Attack   Catholic   Church   Nigeria   Photos   Wikipedia: Nigerian Sharia conflict  
Soldiers stand guards outside St. Rita's Catholic church following a suicide bombing in Kaduna, Nigeria, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. The New York Times Mon 29 Oct 2012
Attack on Nigerian Church Kills 8 and Wounds Dozens
KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) — A suicide bomber drove a vehicle full of explosives into a Roman Catholic church during morning Mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, kill... (photo: AP)
Boko Haram   Christian   Nigeria   Photos   Wikipedia: December 2011 Nigeria bombings  


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