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Nigeria Islamist militant sect drawing increased scrutiny

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Nigerian authors look West to gain their fame

By YINKA IBUKUN - Associated Press

Muslim men at a mosque in Kano, Nigeria, pray on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, for peace and for people who lost their lives during attacks over the weekend. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Prayers of peace turn to fear of attack in Nigeria

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan visits the site of the police headquarters bombed by a suicide bomber in Kano, Nigeria, on Sunday. (Associated Press)

Islamist sect kills 150 in series of attacks

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Red Cross officials collect bodies from a street in Kano, Nigeria, on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, after a bomb blast and gun attacks Friday night. (AP Photo/Salisu Rabiu)

At least 150 killed in Nigerian attacks

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

A victim of Friday's bomb blast and gun attacks lies in Murtala Muhammad specialist hospital in Kano, Nigeria Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. Coordinated attacks claimed by a radical Islamist sect killed at least 120 people in north Nigeria's largest city, hospital records seen Saturday show, as gunfire still echoed around some areas of the sprawling city. (AP Photo/Salisu Rabiu)

Coordinated sect attack kills 143 in north Nigeria

By Ibrahim Garba and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Angry youths protest and shout slogans Jan. 16, 2012, in Lagos, Nigeria. For the first time since protests erupted over spiraling fuel prices, soldiers barricaded key roads in Nigeria's two biggest cities as the president offered a concession to stem demonstrations he said were being stoked by provocateurs seeking anarchy. (Associated Press)

Nigeria fuel strike ends with soldiers in streets

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Men grind pepper at a market in Obalende Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. Nigeria's government will meet with labor unions in a last bid to halt a paralyzing national strike that now threatens oil production in Africa's most populous nation. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigerian fuel strike continues, could impact U.S. oil supply

By Bashir Adigun and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

India to mark milestone in fight against polio

By RAVI NESSMAN - Associated Press

A health worker administers the oral polio vaccine to a newborn baby at Colvin Women's Hospital in Allahabad, India, on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

India marks milestone in fight against polio

By Ravi Nessman - Associated Press

Angry youths protest Jan. 12, 2012, in Lagos, Nigeria, on the fourth day of a nationwide strike following the removal of a fuel subsidy by the government. A union representing 20,000 oil and gas workers threatened to shut down all production. (Associated Press)

Nigeria oil union threats shutdown amid strike

By Yinka Ibukun - Associated Press

Angry youths protest Jan. 11, 2012 at Lekki road on the third day of a nationwide strike following the removal of a fuel subsidy by the government in Lagos, Nigeria. (Associated Press)

Youths go on rampage in Nigeria’s north, killing 1

By Ibrahim Garba and Jon Gambrill - Associated Press

Angry youths protest on the third day of nationwide strike following the removal of a fuel subsidy by the government in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012.Nigeria's government is warning that a paralyzing national strike risks "anarchy" in the oil-rich nation, as demonstrations over spiraling fuel prices and government corruption entered their third day Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Youths go on rampage in ‘Occupy Nigeria’ protest

By Ibrahim Garba and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Nationwide strike begins in Nigeria over gas costs

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

World Briefs

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In a Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011 file photo, medical officials try to treat a victim of a bomb blast at a Catholic church near Nigeria's capital at Suleja General Hospital in Suleja, Nigeria. An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing at least 25 people, officials said. A radical Muslim sect, Boko Haram, claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. Boko Haram's insurgency started with robed men on motorcycles killing their enemies one at a time across Nigeria's remote and dusty northeast. Now the radical Muslim sect's attacks have morphed into a nationwide sectarian fight. (AP Photo/Dele Jones, File)

Nigeria sect kills 15; Christians vow defense

By Jon Grambrell and Njadvara Musa - Associated Press

Briefly: Africa

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times

AZAZI: Combating a common terrorist threat

By Owoye Andrew Azazi - The Washington Times

Cars wait to buy fuel at a petrol station in Lagos, Nigeria, on Jan. 2, 2012. Nigeria is ending fuel subsidies, a move that is sure to be unpopular in the oil-rich nation where citizens have come to expect cheap fuel as one of their few government benefits. (Associated Press)

Nigeria gas price protest turns violent in Lagos

By Sunday Alamba and Yinka Ibukun - Associated Press

Above: Onlookers gather around the site of a bomb blast at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, on Christmas Day. A radical Muslim sect claimed responsibility for the attack and for another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos. Below: Rescue workers remove the body of one of the victims. (Associated Press)

Islamists intensify Nigeria’s divisions

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press