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Millions of Dollars Donated for Malaria Drugs Stolen
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- A leading global health fund believes millions of dollars worth of its donated malaria drugs have been stolen in recent years - perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars worth - vastly exceeding levels of theft previously suspected, according to confidential documents obtained by The Associated Press. The internal investigation by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria comes two months into a new anti-corruption program that the fund launched after an AP report detailing fraud in their grants attracted intense scrutiny from donors. In internal documents detailing ...
Mobs Leave Charred Corpses, Fear in North Nigeria
By not in system - AOL NewsKADUNA, Nigeria -- The mobs poured into the streets by the thousands in this dusty city separating Nigeria's Muslim north and Christian south, armed with machetes and poison-tipped arrows to unleash their rage after the oil-rich nation's presidential election. Muslim rioters burned homes, churches and police stations in Kaduna after results showed Nigeria's Christian leader beat his closest Muslim opponent in Saturday's vote. Reprisal attacks by Christians began almost immediately, with one mob allegedly tearing a home apart to look for a Quran to prove the occupants were Muslims before ...
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Day Care Operator, in Body Armor, Returned to Houston
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsA woman accused of shopping while a fatal fire broke out at her home day care center was brought back to Houston early today, and she stayed silent as she was walked into the jailhouse in handcuffs and a body armor vest. Jessica Tata, 22, fled to Nigeria several days after the Feb. 24 fire, which killed four children and wounded three at her Jackie's Child Care in Houston. She was taken into custody in Nigeria on Saturday and returned to Atlanta early Monday to face charges. Tata waived extradition and was flown to Houston, arriving at the Harris County Jail at about 1:15 a.m. in a convoy of ...
Fugitive Operator of Day Care Center Where 4 Died in Fire Jailed in Ga.
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsThe woman who fled to Nigeria after four children died in a fire at her Houston day care center has been returned to the United States and is behind bars in Atlanta. Jessica Tata, 22, appeared in court this morning and waived extradition to Texas, where she faces charges on four counts of manslaughter related to the Feb. 24 fire at her home-based Jackie's Child Care, the Houston Chronicle reported. She was jailed in Atlanta, awaiting transfer back to Texas. Fulton County Sheriff / AP Jessica Tata was arrested in Nigeria and transferred to the U.S. to face ...
Explosion Strikes Troubled Nigerian City of Jos
By not in system - AOL NewsJOS, Nigeria -- An explosion struck near a church Sunday morning in a restive Nigerian city beset by religious and ethnic violence where hundreds have been killed in the last few months alone, authorities said. There was no immediate information about casualties. It was not clear what caused the explosion in the city of Jos, an epicenter of massacres and targeted killings between Christians and Muslims. However, the explosion comes after soldiers recently discovered a truck loaded with explosives, detonators and more than 33,000 pounds of ammunition. The explosion also comes ahead of crucial ...
Libyan Chaos Stirs Global Panic Over Oil Supplies
By not in system - AOL NewsMADRID -- Libya's oil industry is in chaos - and there's no telling when that will end. Armed men loot equipment from oil field installations. British and German commandos execute secret raids in the Libyan desert to rescue stranded oil workers as security disintegrates rapidly in remote camps. Libyan port workers, frightened of being caught up in Moammar Gadhafi's violent crackdown on protesters, fail to show up for work, leaving empty tankers floating around the Mediterranean Sea waiting to load crude. And the European oil companies extracting Libya's black gold are operating in crisis ...
Obama to Increase Engagement With Africa in 2011
By not in system - AOL NewsHONOLULU -- President Barack Obama is quietly but strategically stepping up his outreach to Africa, using this year to increase his engagement with a continent that is personally meaningful to him and important to U.S. interests. Expectations in Africa spiked after the election of an American president with a Kenyan father. But midway through his term, Obama's agenda for Africa has taken a backseat to other foreign policy goals, such as winding down the Iraq war, fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan and resetting relations with Russia. Obama aides believe those issues are now on more solid ...
Christmas Weekend Violence Kills 38 in Nigeria
By not in system - AOL NewsMAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- Dozens of armed men attacked the church, dragging the pastor out of his home and shooting him to death. Two young men from the choir rehearsing for a late-night carol service also were slain. The group of about 30 attackers armed with guns and knives even killed two people passing by Victory Baptist Church. The assailants only left after setting the church and pastor's house ablaze. Danjuma Akawu, the church's secretary, managed to escape after he and others climbed over the church's fence. "I cannot understand these attacks," Akawu said. "Why Christians? Why ...
Nigeria Charges Former US VP Cheney Over Bribery
By not in system - AOL NewsLAGOS, Nigeria (Dec. 7) -- Nigeria's anti-corruption agency on Tuesday charged former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney over a bribery scheme involving oil services firm Halliburton Co. during time he served as its top official, a spokesman said. The charges stem from a case involving as much as $180 million allegedly paid in bribes to Nigerian officials, said Femi Babafemi, a spokesman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Halliburton and other firms allegedly paid the bribes to win a contract to build a $6 billion liquefied natural gas plant in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, ...
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