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By Haru Mutasa in Africa on January 14th, 2012
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Labour unions in Nigeria aren't protesting this weekend.

It's amazing how things have changed.

When I arrived in Abuja, the capital, last Saturday there were very few cars on the road or people on the street.
 
When the fuel subsidy protest started on Monday, the central business diestrict felt like a ghost town.

It felt as if most people had left the city. Shops and business were closed, police were out in full force and the atmosphere was tense.

We have just arrived back in Abuja from Kano – a journey that took about five hours by road.

The traffic was terrible.

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By Mohamed Vall in Africa on October 31st, 2009
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The 15-member African Union Peace and Security Council's endorsement of the idea of a special hybrid court for Darfur crime suspects could be a solution for the ICC-Khartoum quarrel.

The summit that has been held in the Nigerian capital Abuja stressed the need for both a solution to the conflict in Darfur and justice for the victims of the crimes committed during the war. The idea of a hybrid court has been proposed by a special AU panel on Darfur headed by former South African president Thabo Mbeki.

After all, the hybrid idea seems to have worked in Darfur with regard to peacekeeping. Not that peace in Darfur has been successfully maintained. But at least, after serious and protracted discords between Sudan and western nations over how to deal with the situation, a combined force of UN and African Union troops has been deployed and an end has been put to the row.

By Yvonne Ndege in Africa on October 3rd, 2009
Photo by EPA

Our journey into Nigeria’s violence-prone, oil-rich Niger Delta region begins in the marbled corridors of the ministries of defence and information in the government capital Abuja.

Its pristine skyscrapers are a world apart from the hundreds of mangrove creeks and ravines dotted across six Nigerian oil-producing states. There, a low level on–off war has been waging for years between Nigerian security forces and thousands of men fighting for a greater share of the billions of dollars that oil exports earn Africa’s most populous nation.

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