Topic: West Africa
Australia spends $173 million on airport security
AP Features
Australia announces $173 million security upgrade at airports following attempted US bombingAustralia announced its response Tuesday to the attempted terrorist attack on an airliner over the United States last Christmas: a 200 million Australian dollar ($173 million) upgrade of airport security around the country that will cause passenger delays. A ...
Nigeria: Lawmakers empower vice president
AP News
Nigeria's National Assembly empowers vice president to stand in for absent, ill presidentParliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday to take over for the ill president of oil-rich Nigeria, whose absence has stoked unrest in Africa's most populous country. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate ...
Bad malaria pills in Africa raise resistance fears
AP Features
High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality — including nearly half the pills sampled in Senegal — raising fears of increased drug resistance that could wipe out the last weapon left to battle a disease that kills 1 million people each ...
Nigerian Christians count dead after Jos violence
AP News
Christian group in Nigeria counts its dead after religious violence consumed Jos, villagesA Christian group says 20 of its members died and another 56 remain missing after religious and political violence that consumed central Nigeria last month. A reverend with the Church of Christ in Nigeria said Monday that 67 ...
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