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September 15, 2011 - Reuters
Reuters: African Islamist groups seen as US threat: general
Three African Islamist groups threatening to target Westerners have begun to cooperate among themselves, a "very worrying" trend that raises concern of a network stretching from Algeria to Nigeria, the top U.S. general for Africa said.
September 15, 2011 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Ghana aims to abolish witches' camps
Ghanaian leaders and civil society groups met in the nation’s capital, Accra earlier this week to develop a plan to abolish the witches’ camps in the northern region, where over a thousand women and children who have been accused of sorcery are currently living in exile.
September 14, 2011 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: A new friend for Israel in... South Sudan
The world’s newest member in the community of nations got plenty of press coverage when it formally declared independence in July.
September 08, 2011 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Nigeria's upsurge of violence casts doubt on growth push
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan is battling to limit political fallout from last month's suicide bombing of a United Nations building in his nation's capital, as fears about security threaten to overshadow new policies aimed at spurring growth in Africa's second-largest economy.
September 03, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP:African nations respond to 9/11 attacks with tougher laws, but abuse, mismanagement plagues
After a Nigerian attempted to blow up a U.S. jetliner and a homegrown terror group bombed and killed at will, Nigeria has passed a sweeping anti-terrorism bill.
September 01, 2011 - The Times
Times: Zuma plays politics with his choice for new Chief Justice
Having fought off rape and corruption allegations, Jacob Zuma, the President of South Africa, is no stranger to legal controversy.
August 31, 2011 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Al Qaeda ties seen for Nigeria group
Members of Boko Haram, the group believed responsible for last week's suicide bombing of a United Nations building in Nigeria, have received training from al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Afghanistan and Algeria, according to a recent internal Nigerian intelligence report.
August 26, 2011 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Boko Haram claims responsibility for suicide bombing in Nigeria
With a devastating attack that killed at least 18 people at a United Nations compound, a Nigerian sect has announced its arrival as the latest African group with growing links to global terrorist networks.
August 19, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Ortega's use of religious overtones raises criticism anew in Nicaraguan presidential campaign
Religious processions and chants have become common at the re-election campaign rallies of leftist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who is highlighting his Christianity in his bid for re-election.
August 17, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Islamist threat with Qaeda link grows in Nigeria
A shadowy Islamist insurgency that has haunted northern Nigeria — surviving repeated, bloody efforts to eliminate it — appears to be branching out and collaborating with Al Qaeda’s affiliates, alarming Western officials and analysts who had previously viewed the militants here as a largely isolated, if deadly, menace.
July 22, 2011 - Pretoria News
Pretoria News: Ghana MP: Round up all gays
In a new burst of African homophobia, a government minister in Ghana has drawn support after calling on the country's intelligence services to track down and arrest all gays and lesbians.
June 21, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: In African women’s soccer, homophobia remains an obstacle
Shortly before she was hired in 2009 as the first female coach of Nigeria’s powerful women’s national soccer team, Eucharia Uche said at a seminar that she was troubled by the presence of lesbians on the squad, calling it a “worrisome experience.”
June 19, 2011 - The Associated Pres
AP: Experts: radical Nigerian Muslim sect widening its reach with suicide bombing in capital
The radical Muslim sect has shot police officials and clerics from atop motorcycles, torched churches and even freed hundreds in a brazen prison escape in Nigeria's restive north.
June 06, 2011 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Gay rights are human rights
When it comes to gay rights, South Africa is something of a paradox. Legally progressive, the country allows gay marriage and, in its Constitution, prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
May 29, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Mugabe ally escalates push to control Anglican Church
Religion, like politics, is often a dangerous business in this country.
May 14, 2011 - The Guardian
The Guardian: Outlawing gayness is like 'straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel'
A few of Jesus's friends, like Nicodemus, were Pharisees, but he was not a fan of Pharisaism. Some aspects of his teaching, for example about the afterlife, reflected Pharisaic positions, but his general line seems to have been "do what they say, not what they do".
April 28, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Voting goes on amid ruins after Nigeria rioting
Among the debris of burned homes, destroyed businesses and lives lost on one dirt road in this city on a fault line between Nigeria's two major faiths, the bright green ballot boxes stood out Thursday against the misery inflicted here.
April 24, 2011 - The Guardian
The Guardian: Nigeria's gay church is reborn amid a climate of fear
When Ade's aunt learned he was gay, the then 16-year-old Nigerian was made to go through an exorcism to expel "the demon of homosexuality".
April 20, 2011 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Nigeria election riots: How leaders stoke Muslim-Christian violence
In anticipation of the results of Nigeria's remarkably smooth presidential vote over the weekend, angry young men took to the streets across the country's mainly Muslim north on Monday with knives and clubs.
April 14, 2011 - The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail: An island of sanity in Nigeria’s city of hate
At night, when they hear rumours of an attack by machete-wielding gangs, the people of Dadin Kowa pull their chairs onto the street and wait until dawn, watching the shadows for intruders.
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