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...NIGERIA Delivered from a Voyage to Nowhere After spending 26 days at sea, 156 Liberian passengers aboard a Swedish-registered ship were finally allowed ashore in Lagos. The Alnar Stockholm left Monrovia on June 1 bound for Ghana but was refused permission to dock. The ship's captain then tried Benin and Togo, but they also declined to accept the passengers, who claimed to be refugees from fighting in their homeland. As the ship drew into Lagos they were too exhausted and hungry to celebrate but sang a hymn praising God for their deliverance...
...measures agreed with U.S. mediators, including a freeze on Jewish settlements and the arrest of Islamic militants. But skirmishes broke out in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as Powell's visit ended, and Israel said that the truce would begin on the first violence-free day. NIGERIA Ethnic Flare-Up Ethnic violence erupted in central Nigeria after the killing of a local leader. More than 50 people were killed in an attack on the Egon community by militia from the Tiv ethnic group. Up to 50,000 people fled their homes after a series of revenge attacks...
...problems in Britain today--corruption and the need for better roads, schools and hospitals--are reflected in its former colony Nigeria. Here too we struggle with what we call the dividends of democracy, but we realize that gains can come only after a lot of pain. The best solution, as naive as it sounds, is not to rock the boat...
...victories by Tony Blair and the Labour Party are a lesson that the dividends of democracy come slowly but surely. Nigerians need only look to the U.S. to find that, in the final analysis, no matter how difficult it is, democracy is the way forward. LULUFA KUNDUL VONGTAU Kaduna, Nigeria...
...Characters speak in several of South Africa's official languages, and the series is subtitled in English. It has been shown in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Nigeria, Namibia, Malawi and Barbados and has been dubbed into French and Portuguese for showing in Ivory Coast, Mozambique and other countries. "This concept has got legs," says Japhet. "It moves...