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By Hugh Schofield, BBC News, Paris Why is it so often that problems seem to get worse just when they ought to be getting better?

By Ilyasu Gadu It is instructive that as anti-French feelings are erupting in the French sphere in Africa, the French like the Soviet leaders of

By Gordon Crawford & Maurice Beseng The armed conflict in Cameroon between separatist groups and the military is in its sixth year. Armed groups are

When the military in Nigeria first struck in 1966, a few years after the country’s independence, it was for the same reasons given today for