1. TCHINTABARADEN, Niger (Reuters) - In the weeks since a sudden Tuareg revolt split Mali in two, officials in neighbouring Niger have been desperate to stop the Sahara uprising from spreading across their border. If history is a guide, Niger has reason to be nervous. Since the first of several uprisings nearly a century ago by the indigo-turbaned nomads - who live in the vast desert spanning ...
    Reuters via Yahoo! News - May 03 01:21am
  2. TCHINTABARADEN, Niger (Reuters) - In the weeks since a sudden Tuareg revolt split Mali in two, officials in neighboring Niger have been desperate to stop the Sahara uprising from spreading across their border. If history is a guide, Niger has reason to be nervous. Since the first of several uprisings nearly a century ago by the indigo-turbaned nomads - who live in the vast desert spanning ...
    Reuters via Yahoo! News - May 03 12:31am

  3. Blast on bus in Nigerian oil city

    An explosion caused by dynamite on a bus in the Nigerian oil hub city of Port Harcourt on Thursday killed the driver and wounded two others, the state governor and a rescue official said.
    AFP via Yahoo! News - May 17 06:23am

  4. Islamists offer to 'free Brit' in Qatada deal

    Islamist militants have offered to free a British-South African hostage if London allows radical cleric Abu Qatada to choose a country for his extradition, US monitoring service SITE said.
    AFP via Yahoo! News - Apr 30 04:30am

  5. Islamists offer to 'free Brit' if Qatada let go: report

    DAKAR (AFP) - Islamist militants have offered to free a British-South African hostage if London allows radical cleric Abu Qatada to choose a country for his extradition, US monitoring service SITE said.
    AFP via Yahoo!7 News - Apr 29 11:39pm
  6. In one town in northern Mali a man has been whipped for drinking alcohol. In another, pictures of unveiled women have been torn down. In a third, traditional music is no longer heard in the streets.
    Associated Press via Yahoo! News - May 02 10:21am
  7. LAGOS, Nigeria - Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Friday it shut down one of its major pipelines running through Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta for repair, blaming incessant thefts on the line for causing chronic leaks along it.
    The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News - May 04 12:06pm
  8. In one town in northern Mali a man has been whipped for drinking alcohol. In another, pictures of unveiled women have been torn down. In a third, traditional music is no longer heard in the streets.While government soldiers were...
    The New Zealand Herald - May 02 01:10pm
  9. An unidentified policeman checks an oil pipeline which vandals break to steal oil from, in Warri, Nigeria. Photo courtesy guardian.co.uk
    The Trinidad Guardian - May 05 09:53pm