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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.
April 13, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Pulling out all the stops to push an antigay bill
They entered through Parliament’s gates, an eclectic group. Their leader, the Rev. Martin Ssempa, wore sunglasses and long black robes embroidered with matching red crosses and two campaign buttons. One said, “Debate Our Bill Now!” and the other, simply, “No to Sodomy.”
April 11, 2011 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: African gay-rights activists stand strong as brutality rises
When her fiancée was brutally raped by men who sought to “correct” her sexual orientation, Ndumie Funda vowed to fight for justice.
April 09, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Nigeria holds election despite violence
Nigeria's voters pressed their ink-soaked fingers to ballots Saturday, braving bomb attacks and communal violence to vote in the first round of crucial April elections in the oil-rich nation.
April 03, 2011 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Nigeria election delay marks yet another setback for democracy

Hopes that Nigeria’s critical elections would break the country’s pattern of poorly organized and fraudulent polls were dealt a blow on Saturday after the electoral commission announced a postponement of the parliamentary election once it was already underway.

April 03, 2011 - Sunday Herald
Herald: The next Rwanda? ‘In all districts of Abidjan there is gunfire’
A massacre in a Roman Catholic mission compound in the heart of the Ivory Coast’s cocoa-producing region could come to be seen as a crucial moment in the West African state’s escalating civil war.
March 08, 2011 - The Australian
The Australian: Opinion: West obliged to champion Muslim feminists
On the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, women in most Muslim lands are still oppressed by sharia family law.
February 18, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Voter verification lists hard to find in Nigeria
Student Yakubu Daniel ran his index finger over list after weathered list of voter names and mugshots Friday, searching for his own unsmiling face among those registered for Nigeria's upcoming April elections.
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