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...mercenary standards, Robert Denard's was an illustrious career. The French soldier of fortune waged war throughout three decades in such places as the old Congo, Angola and Benin and had a hand in the overthrow of three governments in the Comoro Islands. But Denard may have finally pushed fortune too far. Involved in the assassination of Comoro President Ahmed Abdallah, Denard and his mercenary minions were running the country until late last week, when French troops called in by the Comoro interim President hastened his departure...
Word of the Nanjing violence set off further outbreaks. In Hangzhou, African students boycotted classes. In Wuhan and Beijing, hundreds of Chinese students staged anti-African demonstrations. The Gambia government registered a formal protest, and diplomats from Ghana and Benin voiced displeasure over Chinese treatment of their nationals. But overall reaction from the continent was restrained, reflecting the conflicting nuances of Africa's dealings with China: gratitude for decades of Chinese support; familiarity with Chinese ; racism, which has been intensified by economic frustrations; and worries about how to protect existing links with Beijing...
...were hungry, thirsty and penniless," John Cofie Godigah, 38, recalled last week from a hospital bed in Ghana. "I expected the Nigerians to show some feeling. I was mistaken." Godigah had driven his car from Lagos, Nigeria, to a border station on the Benin frontier, joining a caravan of an estimated 250 vehicles filled with foreigners who were being forced to leave the country. When the crowd tried to force its way across the choked border into Benin, Nigerian guards began firing warning shots and tear gas. Godigah was hit. He awoke in a hospital, was released after treatment...
...sealed all of the country's land borders, trapping hundreds of thousands of refugees. Nigerian Radio, quoting official sources, said the illegal immigrants, many of whom are destitute, would be allowed to leave the country only by land or sea. Shortly before the deadline, refugees on the border with Benin, who had been waiting for four days without food or water, began protesting. Nigerian police waded in with truncheons, and 200 people were injured in the melee. Road accidents have claimed at least 13 lives as refugees have hurried to border crossings in dangerously overloaded vehicles...
...Nigeria's Minister of Internal Affairs, Major General Mohammed Magoro, who declared simply that "all illegal aliens are to leave before the tenth of May." About half the immigrants targeted for expulsion originally came from Ghana, the rest mainly from Burkina Faso, Niger, Liberia, Chad, Togo, Gambia and Benin. Many had entered Nigeria illegally in search of jobs; others had fled from drought and starvation...