News from Nigeria and Africa

Nimba County, the scene where the Liberian civil war started more than a decade ago has ruptured into violence again fueled on Thursday when a protest in the town of Zolowee in Nimba County over the operations of world Steel giant Arcelor Mittal, triggered...

Speculation about President Robert Mugabe's health resurfaced this week with allegations that the 90 year old leader collapsed Wednesday, soon after his anti white rant while addressing rural farmers in Mhangura.
SW Radio Africa received an unconfirmed report on Friday, from a normally reliable source, who said Mugabe collapsed after he told a cheering crowd of land-grab beneficiaries in Mashonaland West that the remaining white farmers must go. It was reported...

A car bomb has killed and injured several soldiers and civilians outside of the Somali parliament in the capital, Mogadishu. The terrorist organization al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the attack.
A Somali official, Captain Mohammed Hussein, said the car exploded at a checkpoint after it had been stopped by Somali troops. Police said that soldiers who were stationed outside the parliament building prevented the car bomb from reaching its target...

A strike by 220,000 engineers and metalworkers has dealt major blow to South Africa's economy.
The labor dispute has been marked by violent clashes between police and striking workers and reports of looting and intimidation by union members.
The strike comes just a week after settlement of a five-month-long strike by platinum workers. The walkout cost three main platinum mining firms $2.25 billion in lost revenue...