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Boko Haram Fighters Seize Nigerian Army Base
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Shell Reaches Settlement Over Oil Spills In Niger Delta
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Nigerian Forces Fight To Free Town From Terrorists
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Boko Haram Uses Girls As Suicide Bombers, Reports Say
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View ArticleCountdown To Zero: Guinea's Campaign To Conquer Ebola In 60 Days
Hundreds of spectators and government officials watched as music and fanfare filled the People's Palace in Conakry, Guinea. Cheerleaders danced vigorously, waving pompoms and twirling on stage. The...
View ArticleSchool's Back On In Guinea: Reading, Writing, Temperature-Taking
At the crack of dawn, the Sow family — parents and four children, two girls and two boys — are up at their home in Conakry, Guinea's capital.
View ArticleAfrica's Soccer Tourney Takes Guinea's Mind Off Ebola
Red, gold and green – Guinea's national colors — filled the streets of the capital, Conakry, early this morning. Guineans of all ages proudly wore the colors on their T-shirts, headbands, dresses and...
View ArticleGuinea's Grand Imam Pulls No Punches In His Ebola Message
"Ebola — you have to do more," roars the barrel-bellied cleric El Hadj Mamadou Saliou Camara, with his white beard and mustache, in a snow-white boubou, the traditional flowing gown of West...
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Nigeria Thwarts Boko Haram Attack On Maiduguri
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South Sudan's Rival Leaders Agree To Cease-Fire
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A cease-fire deal was signed today in South Sudan, a bid to end a bloody conflict that's devastated the...
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Boko Haram Attacks Spread Beyond Nigeria's Borders
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View ArticleWhile New England Gets Snow, West Africa Gets Sand
Would you kindly bear with me a little while I have a good old moan, please? I'm feeling rather wretched. No, not because I've finally kicked a lingering lurgy that turned out to be bronchitis and...
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Boko Haram Ramps Up Attacks Despite Effort To Repel Them
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In its latest video, Islamist extremists from the Nigerian group Boko Haram display the bodies of two men accused of spying.
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Nigeria's Boko Haram Pledges To Back Islamic State
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Nigerian Army Advances Against Boko Haram As Election Looms
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Boko Haram Kidnaps 500 Children In Northeastern Nigeria
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Nigerian President Faces Tough Reelection Campaign
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Voting In Nigeria Affected By Isolated Violence And Irregularities
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Opposition Candidate Defeats Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan
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