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CALABAR, Nigeria (Reuters) - A wooden boat carrying 166 people from southeastern Nigeria capsized about 40 nautical miles off the coast, with only two known survivors, emergency services and local traders said on Tuesday.
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Two Indian traders were held-up in China for several months over allegations of non-payment of dues to Chinese businessmen.
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- For the first time in more than a decade, Nigeria's national team has made it to the biggest game in African football, but you might not have been able to tell if you tuned into a local television station in Africa's most populous nation.
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CALABAR, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 45 people died when a wooden boat carrying 166 people from southeastern Nigeria capsized off the coast, a doctor said on Tuesday. The boat left on Friday from the remote town of Oron, in Cross Rivers state, and was heading across the Gulf of Guinea to Gabon, in central Africa, when it capsized 40 nautical miles offshore, emergency...
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Two Indian traders, who were held-up in China for several months over allegations of non-payment of dues to Chinese businessmen, have been sent back to India after intense diplomatic efforts.
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BAGA, Nigeria (AP) — Satellite photographs and witness statements Tuesday strongly challenged denials by Nigeria's government about mass casualties and damage left behind after fighting between the military and Islamic extremists in a northeast Nigeria village where locals say some 187 people were killed.
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BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) -- Gunmen in Nigeria's northeast who kidnapped seven foreign workers Sunday let the Nigerians go....
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BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen in Nigeria's northeast who kidnapped seven foreign workers Sunday let the Nigerians go.
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Somalia's Supreme Court frees a journalist imprisoned for interviewing a woman who alleged she had been raped by security forces.
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