<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Nigeria</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/africa/westafrica/nigeria?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><description>Nigeria</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[In Nigeria, Where Money Talks, Reform Is the Word]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27682-2005Apr30.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27682-2005Apr30.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ABUJA, Nigeria  --  Police call it "a kola nut." Journalists call it "the brown envelope." And politicians call it "a welfare package." Whatever the name, the almighty bribe long has lubricated Nigerian society as it has few others on Earth.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nigeria's Rainmaker Is Eyed at Vatican]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59514-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59514-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ONITSHA, Nigeria  --  The legend of Cardinal Francis Arinze, a contender to become the first pope from Africa in 1,500 years, stems from a moment of crisis in Nigeria's Catholic heartland. It was the early 1970s, and the government had ordered all European and American priests  --  most of the Catholic leadership at the time  --  out of the country.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catholics Crowd Churches to Pray, Celebrate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19886-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19886-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Anxious Catholics packed churches around the world Friday for special masses, lit candles, held vigils and prayed for Pope John Paul II as he lay near death in his Vatican City apartment.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chile's Pragmatist Embraces Different Brand of Socialism]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50270-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50270-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ COQUIMBO, Chile  --  Walking along a dirt road in this northern coastal town last week, President Ricardo Lagos was serenaded by a small orchestra perched on a plywood platform. Turning a corner, he encountered a second ensemble of cellists and violinists, playing just loud enough to overpower the first.]]></description><author> Monte Reel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calvert Authorities Warn of Schemes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37052-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37052-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Calvert County Sheriff's Office and the Maryland State Police are warning residents  about fund-transfer schemes -- old cons that take on many forms but that usually leave the unsuspecting victim out of luck and out of money.]]></description><author> Arthur Santana</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nollywood, In a Starring Role]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A66-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A66-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One of the rarest things to see in an American cineplex is a film by Africans, about Africans, starring Africans, with a script by Africans.]]></description><author> Neely Tucker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldier Defended Adopted Home]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45795-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45795-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nigerian immigrant killed in Iraq witnessed 9/11 attacks.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mixed Signals Confuse Oil Price Picture]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16781-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16781-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ VIENNA, Jan. 17 -- With crude futures at their highest since the end of November and the New York Mercantile Exchange closed, oil prices looked to overseas markets for direction Monday.]]></description><author> George Jahn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dose of Prevention Where HIV Thrives]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17899-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17899-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Nigerian brothel becomes the test site for a new AIDS treatment pill.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nigeria's Oil Fuels Anger, Bloodshed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49472-2004Dec8.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49472-2004Dec8.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There are seven freshly dug graves in this Niger Delta village. Local leaders say they contain the remains of protesters who died violently last month when they attempted to mount a protest at an oil rig operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria, the region's largest oil firm.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Nigeria, Talking Up Two Drops of Vaccine]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11163-2004Nov24.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11163-2004Nov24.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Polio eradication efforts get back on track in African nation after hostility to treatment reignited disease.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Md. Woman Convicted of Harboring Girl in Enslavement Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61388-2004Nov18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61388-2004Nov18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A physician from Nigeria was acquitted yesterday of charges that she forced a young immigrant girl to work as an unpaid servant in her Montgomery County home. But a federal jury convicted her of conspiracy and harboring a juvenile alien for financial gain.]]></description><author> Ruben Castaneda</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sudan, Rebels Reach Accord on Darfur]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38097-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38097-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With violence increasing and political pressure mounting to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, the government agreed Tuesday to halt military flights over the region and signed a separate agreement to allow free access to aid for the nearly 2 million people displaced by the violence.]]></description><author> Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics Delay U.S. Airlift Of Peacekeepers to Sudan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62798-2004Oct25.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62798-2004Oct25.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ KIGALI, Rwanda, Oct. 25 -- Well before the sun rose over the city's winding hills Monday, Col. Charles Karamba was wide awake, ready to give his 120 Rwandan army troops an energetic send-off to western Sudan.]]></description><author> Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[AU Guiding Start-Up of College in Nigeria]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55826-2004Oct22.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55826-2004Oct22.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[American University is supplying academic and management expertise to help launch Nigeria's first private U.S.-style university, and school officials will travel to Africa for next week's groundbreaking ceremony.]]></description><author> D'Vera Cohn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nigerians Accused of Enslaving, Abusing Juvenile]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31145-2004Oct13.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31145-2004Oct13.html?nav=rss_world/africa/westafrica/nigeria</guid><pubDate>Mon, 2 May 2005 19:04:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The man's voice on the audio recording, played in federal court in Prince George's County this week, is calm, conversational. He is talking with a woman, now 22, telling her it was not wrong for him to have sex with her when she was a juvenile.]]></description><author> Ruben Castaneda</author></item></channel></rss>