Informes

Militants want concrete post-amnesty plans - Also seek new local councils, military withdrawal - Top government negotiator in direct contact By Austin Ekeinde PORT HARCOURT, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Three militant leaders in Nigeria's oil heartland want concrete plans for fighters who disarm and a…

Ex-gunmen demand payment for handing over arms - Hundreds march in protest, barricade roads - Threaten to resume bombings, pipeline attacks By Segun Owen YENAGOA, Nigeria, Sept 4 (Reuters) - About 200 Nigerian rebels on Friday threatened to resume attacks in the oil-producing Niger Delta…

Tunis, 2 September 2008 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group Board of Directors has approved a loan of US$ 78 million, (50 million UA*), from the African Development Fund (ADF), to finance an Urban Water Supply and Sanitation…

Three key militant leaders could surrender in days - MEND reshuffles leadership, sheds "popular" commanders - Main rebel group says forming own negotiating team (Releads, adds militant sources, details) By Randy Fabi ABUJA, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Three key militant leaders in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger…

LAGOS, Sep 01, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- An additional nine assorted guns and 700 rounds of ammunition were surrendered by the militant groups in southeast Nigeria's Bayelsa State, the Nigeria Tribune newspaper reported on Tuesday. The total number of…

By Scott Bobb Johannesburg The United Nations says the world economic crisis is raising malnutrition and death rates among Africa's children while reducing their access to schools and health care. The assessment was released as world leaders prepare to gather Sept.…

A new UK-backed campaign to rid Nigeria of malaria and distribute over 63 million lifesaving bednets launched its second phase in the north of the country today. Malaria is a wholly preventable disease and sleeping under a bednet is a…

By Gilbert da Costa Abuja, 31 August 2009 - Hundreds of Nigerian militants from the oil rich Niger Delta are turning in their weapons nearly four weeks after a 60-day amnesty period began. But as our correspondent reports from Abuja,…

CHALLENGE In 2002, Nigeria had 2.7 million people living with HIV/AIDS, the fourth-largest total of any country. The epidemic had already killed a total of 1.7 million people and orphaned 1.5 million children. The country's nascent efforts to fight the…

A national centre for skills development and training in the oil and gas sector is going to be established in Port Harcourt, capital of the southern oil-rich Rivers State. As part of the amnesty programme offered by President Umaru Yar'Adua…