Category Archives: Nigeria
Africans protest in #China as man dies in police custody
More than 100 Africans protested on Tuesday outside a police station in China’s southern Guangdong province after an African man died in police custody. The protest in Guangdong’s capital Guangzhou, which brought traffic to a halt, lasted for two hours on Tuesday, Xinhua reported, citing an official from the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau. The […]
West African “Terror Threat”: After Decades, Anarchy Hasn’t Arrived
While riddled with weak states, West Africa has not become the international terrorist playground some feared it would. That does not mean warnings about extremists should be overlooked however. By Charlie Warren for ISN Security Watch In 1994, journalist Robert Kaplan wrote a controversial Atlantic article, “The Coming Anarchy,” warning of West Africa’s ungoverned spaces, disease-ridden slums, […]
Chinese Investment In Nigeria Hits $8.4 Billion – Official
Chinese investment in Nigeria has hit the 8.4 billion dollar mark, says Mr Yonghua Ding, the Head of the Political and Press Section at the Chinese Embassy. Ding, who stated this in Abuja on Thursday, noted that the investment was in telecommunications, agriculture, oil and gas and power, among others. He said the figure was […]
#Nigeria Claims Over $12 Billion Lost to Pipeline Vandalism And Oil Theft
20 May 2012 UPDATE: Appears the announcement of losses below was a prelude to this announcement of deploying security forces. Losing over 180 million barrels of crude oil daily, Nigeria has inaugurated a joint military task force on crude oil theft, the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshall Oluseyi Petinrin, told journalists on Saturday in Lagos, during […]
African refugees stuck at #Yemen-#Saudi border
SANA’A — The Yemeni Interior Ministry has highlighted humanitarian abuses that African refugees undergo at various smuggling points along the Saudi-Yemeni border. At these border crossings, particularly in Harad city, the African stowaways to Saudi Arabia have become easy prey for human trafficking gangs. The gangs torture the refugees and make them call their relatives […]
