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In one of this city's relatively posh neighborhoods, there is a compound full of specialists.
Gunmen in speedboats attacked an offshore oil field in the volatile Niger Delta, kidnapping three foreign workers and four Nigerians, Shell officials said Sunday.
Conservation experts appealed Friday for help to improve security and animal safety at a wildlife park in the Democratic Republic of Congo where four mountain gorillas were massacred in July.
Nigeria's ruling party on Sunday chose a Muslim from the north as its candidate for presidential elections that will mark the first transfer of power between elected governments since Nigeria's independence in 1960.
Sudan's president rejected a proposal Thursday to send U.N. peacekeepers to Darfur to boost a beleaguered 7,000-member African Union force, crushing hopes for a quick solution to the violence spreading across central Africa.
Gunmen in speedboats raided a Norwegian vessel conducting seismic surveys off Nigeria's oil-rich southern coastline Thursday, seizing an American and a Briton in the latest unrest to hit Africa's leading crude producer, officials said.
A corruption investigation in Washington has roiled Nigeria, leaving the top two leaders publicly trading allegations and nudging a politically volatile country closer to the brink.
African and black American leaders meeting this week debated an unusual proposal to spur investment and interest in the continent — securing African citizenship for American descendants of Africans taken away as slaves.
Africa needs to build infrastructure and curb corruption to become truly attractive for private investment, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz told a forum of African and black American leaders.
Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo once had a notice posted at the gate of his farm and presidential retreat: "No dogs and journalists allowed."
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