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...British gay-rights activist snapped: "I hope he likes his newfound friends." But in fact, he has few on the right. "He's a very courteous man," says Morgan. "Sometimes the nuanced way in which he says things is lost on people." Certainly it is lost on archconservative Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola, who has said that God regards homosexuality as the equivalent of humans having sex with various animals, and who has commented, "We don't have to go through Canterbury to get to Jesus." He also set up his own Anglican body in the U.S. - the Convocation of Anglicans...
...pusher-in-chief, of course, especially since the founding of cana, has been Akinola. "I've said to him privately and publicly I don't think that [cana] was an appropriate response," says Williams. He is also bothered by the unwavering support by Akinola's church of a proposed Nigerian law, now lapsed, that would have assigned a five-year jail term not only to open homosexuals, but to those who supported them. Williams says he is "very unhappy" about the situation, "and I've written to the Archbishop about...
Ekperi, who was of Nigerian descent, is survived by her parents and an older sister, Macey said...
...nominal democracy since 1999. But international monitors have questioned the fairness of the April 21 elections in which outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo was replaced by his favored candidate Umaru Yar'Adua, a previously obscure state Governor. "These elections have not lived up to the hopes and expectations of the Nigerian people, and the process cannot be considered to have been credible," said Max van den Berg, chief E.U. observer, after the vote. When Yar'Adua was sworn in as President last Tuesday, he vowed to improve the election process and "intensify the war against corruption," while also pleading with "aggrieved...
...violence has reverberations far beyond Nigeria. Oil rose above $50 a barrel for the first time when in 2004 a Nigerian Muslim militant threatened to attack the industry, while fears that the April 2007 elections would trigger renewed violence were a factor in driving the price above $66 in late May. Yergin, of Cambridge Energy Reasearch Associates, warns: "As West Africa becomes increasingly important, consumers in the U.S., Europe and Asia will discover that their own energy security depends in part on political and economic stability in West Africa." American warships already patrol off West Africa, and U.S. energy...