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Nigeria's Nwankwo Kanu is consoled by an unidentified man at the end of the Group 4 World Cup qualifying soccer match against Zimbabwe in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday Oct. 8, 2005. Nigeria beat Zimbabwe 5-1 but missed out on qualifying for the 2006 World Cup.
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Kanu has corrective heart surgery
Nwankwo Kanu is recovering in the United States after undergoing corrective heart surgery. His younger brother Ogbonna told BBC Sport that the former Arsenal striker is doing well after the operation.... (photo: AP / George Osodi)
This Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, photo, shows the remains of the burned out Federal Government College in Buni Yadi, Nigeria.
Boko Haram Attacks   Insurgency in Nigeria   Photos   Terrorism in Nigeria   Wikipedia: Islamist insurgency in Nigeria
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Militants Kill Students at Nigerian School
Suspected Islamic extremists killed more than 30 students Tuesday in northern Nigeria in an attack the president calls "heinous, brutal and mindless." The attack occurred in the middle of... (photo: AP / Photo)
President Barack Obama speaks about being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. In the portfolio of presidential phrases, none is more pervasive than Obama's four-word favorite: Let me be clear. And Friday describing his surprise he said, "Let me be clear. I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations."  Swissinfo 
Obama warns of 'fallout' for Israel if peace effort fails
Energy Ariel Sharon Reuters Image Caption: U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Washington (reuters tickers) March 3, 2014 - 03:26... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)
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President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda  Al Jazeera 
Uganda punished over anti-gay law
The World Bank and European countries cut aid and loans to Uganda after its controversial anti-gay bill was passed. But would Ugandans change their mind over homosexuals?... (photo: AP / Michael Makutu )
Gay Marriage in Africa   Photos   Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill   Wikipedia: Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014   Yoweri Museveni
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Nigerian troops patrol at Maiduguri, Nigeria, Saturday, Aug 1, 2009. Banks and markets reopened in this northern Nigerian city after five days of fierce fighting between police and a radical Islamist sect. Sun Star
Dozens killed in Nigerian school attack
DAMATURU, Nigeria -- Islamic militants set fire to a locked dormitory at a school in northern Nigeria, then shot and slit the throats of students who tried to escape... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
Boko Haram Attacks   Insurgency in Nigeria   Photos   Terrorism in Nigeria   Wikipedia: Islamist insurgency in Nigeria
In this photo taken with a mobile phone, a man receives treatment at Konduga specialist hospital, following an attack by suspected Islamic extremists in Kawuri, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. At least 85 residents of Kawuri village in Nigeria’s northeast were unable to escape from attackers who blew up the weekly market as villagers were packing up and then razed at least 300 homes, a local official said Tuesday. The suspected Boko Haram members even left behind explosives that went off the next morning. Stuff
Nigerian militants kill school students
Suspected Islamic militants have killed 29 students in a pre-dawn attack on a northeast Nigerian school, survivors say, setting ablaze a locked dormitory and shooting and... (photo: AP / Jossy Ola)
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In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 photo, police officers armed with AK-47 rifles stand guard at sandbagged bunkers along 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 and is gaining prominence Canberra Times
Dozens of students 'slaughtered like sheep' in pre-dawn raid on Nigerian school; Islamists blamed
Students and schools are regularly targeted by Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist movement that forbids Western education. Dozens of students were killed in this hostel in... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
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Dozens of students killed in Nigerian school The Guardian
Dozens of students killed in Nigerian school
YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic militants killed dozens of students in a predawn attack on a northeast Nigerian college, survivors say, setting ablaze a locked... (photo: UN / Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID)
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram Could Be a Western-backed Insurgency The Irish Times
Nigerian Islamists kill 29 pupils in boarding school attack
Gunmen from Islamist group Boko Haram stormed a boarding school in northeast Nigeria overnight and killed 29 pupils, many of whom died in flames as the school was burned... (photo: WN / Tarig Anter)
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