Known as the ‘Giant of Africa,’ Nigeria stretches across the continent like a patchwork quilt, sewn together from dozens of…
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Known as the ‘Giant of Africa,’ Nigeria stretches across the continent like a patchwork quilt, sewn together from dozens of…
Two decades of ethnic tension and a civil war in 1990 laid the groundwork for one of the most savage…
The State Department is not exactly known for its jocularity but once in a while, it can have its fair…
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