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...program. The agency's board stopped short of U.S. demands that it refer the country to the U.N. Security Council. But the IAEA did warn of stern action in the event of "further serious Iranian failures." Tehran claims its program is for civil use. Come Get Him NIGERIA President Olusegun Obasanjo said he would surrender ousted Liberian leader Charles Taylor if the interim government in Monrovia asked him. Obasanjo has refused to hand over Taylor, who fled Liberia in August, to a U.N. court in Sierra Leone , where he faces war crimes charges. Sign of Hope KASHMIR India and Pakistan...
...revealed that only 2% of the attacks were racially or politically motivated. Stoning Overturned NIGERIA A woman convicted for adultery and sentenced to death by stoning under Shari'a law won her second appeal at a court in the northern state of Katsina. The ruling brought relief to President Olusegun Obesanjo, who was under pressure from Western governments and the E.U. to stop the sentence being carried out. Amina Lawal would have been the first person to be stoned to death since Shari'a law was adopted by 12 predominantly Muslim northern states in 1999. Fleeing to Freedom COLOMBIA Briton...
...refused to say when he would depart the country. Nearly everybody wants him out. President Bush has set Taylor's departure as a condition for any large-scale deployment of American peacekeepers, though seven arrived on Aug. 6 to coordinate logistics with the West Africans. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has offered Taylor asylum from a war-crimes indictment. Jacques Paul Klein, the top U.N. envoy in Liberia, has urged Taylor to accept the offer. "Go while the getting is good," Klein says. Even Taylor's militia and congressmen from his own party say he should leave, arguing that his presence...
...limits being set by Washington on what its troops may do has not been well-received by the West Africans. Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo told the BBC, "If your house is on fire and somebody says: 'Here I am. I have my fire engine. Now when you put your fire out on your house, I will come in.' I wonder what sort of help that is, with all due respect." And the fact that the U.S. has a fire engine and a corps of firefighters whose capabilities dwarf those of everyone else in the neighborhood makes it difficult...
...centered near Baghdad. The Bush Administration would like to avoid the stigma of American occupation and share the security of the country after weeks of violence and looting. Neighborly Advice zimbabwe South African President Thabo Mbeki confirmed that he will travel to Harare this week, accompanied by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Malawian leader Bakili Muluzi, for talks with President Robert Mugabe on the country's economic and political crisis. But Mbeki's spokesman denied reports that the group would pressure Mugabe to step down. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai criticized the planned visit, saying the only solution to the current...