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Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe told BBC News he had protested to the US ambassador about the measures.

And the Nigerian Senate has lodged an official appeal with the US to be removed from the list of 14 countries.

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16 Days of Activism must not be used to relieve guilt

In the lead-up to the 16 Days of Activism Against Violence against women and children (25 November – 10 December), we hear plenty of speeches, see articles and hear radio talk-show rants about atrocities. Yet nothing ever changes.

It’s been a decade since the campaign was launched, yet incidents of abuse are still hi...

As the world prepares for the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen 2009, pressure mounts on us as citizens of the world to understand and address the realities of climate change. Some argue that these changes are man-made, others argue that they are cyclical. Whatever the cause, we all agree that our glaciers are melting, our waters rising, and if we do not change, our childre...

Yemeni coastguards have arrested eight Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, Yemeni Defense Ministry published on Friday on its own website.

The Ministry of defense of Yemen said that the Somali pirates were on board a vessel loaded with two rocket-propelled grenades, some light weapons and a ladder for hijacki...