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Sudan sentences woman to death by stoning

Last updated Friday, June 1, 2012 - 1:53pm

JOHANNESBURG - Human rights groups have called for Sudan to abolish death by stoning as prescribed legal punishment after a young woman convicted of adultery was ordered executed by a Sudanese court.

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Multiple bomb blasts hit Nigerian city

Robyn Dixon Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 2:42pm

JOHANNESBURG -- Nigeria's troubled north, already plagued by a rash of terrorist bombings and drive-by killings during the last year, faced a new attack Friday: multiple bombings in Kano, the region's largest city. Fighting between gunmen and security forces was also reported.

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US warns of possible terror attack in Nigeria

Robyn Dixon Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, November 7, 2011 - 2:41pm

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Days after a series of coordinated attacks in northern Nigeria killed more than 100 people, the U.S. State Department has warned travelers to stay away from three major hotels in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, after learning of a possible new assault.

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Is Nigerian militant group the new al-Qaida?

Robyn Dixon Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, September 19, 2011 - 9:38am

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The signs are ominous: A terrorist group in northern Nigeria claims to have trained with al-Qaida-linked militants in Somalia, and vows to launch international attacks after a deadly bombing last month of the U.N. headquarters in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

The head of U.S. Africa Command, Gen. Carter F. Ham, has warned of the threat of a pan-African al-Qaida-linked terrorism network capable of endangering Western interests across the continent.

And Nigerian intelligence experts have suggested that another al-Qaida affiliate in the region, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, may be supplying personnel, weapons and training to the Nigerian group, Boko Haram.

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