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On arrival, the Chinese health workers had their temperature taken and were made to wash their hands , a ritual adopted across the region as part of efforts to stem the disease . Yue said the establishment of the clinic in Liberia brought China 's contribution to the anti -Ebola effort in the country to $ 122 m . Before China 's pledge to send 1 , 000 personnel , Cuba was the largest contributor of medical contingents to the crisis . About 160 Chinese health workers have arrived in Liberia , where they are due to staff a new $ 41 m Ebola clinic that , unlike most other foreign interventions , is being built and fully run by Chinese personnel . China , Africa 's biggest trade partner , had come under fire for the level of its response to the Ebola crisis . But it said this week it would send 1 , 000 personnel to help fight an outbreak that has killed over 5 , 000 people in West Africa . " Up to now in Liberia , China is the only country which provid...

Nigeria , Africa 's richest economy , has always been dogged by claims of oil -related corruption , transparency , and environmental damage . But theft of oil is taking it to another level . The country faces its worst oil crisis in years as criminal gangs make off with billions in stolen crude . Theft is no small matter for a country which gets almost two-thirds of its revenue from the oil industry . Nigeria produced 2 . 25 m barrels of oil per day , but around 400, 000 barrels of those are stolen - meaning the government lost $ 8 bn in revenue last year . And worse yet, independent think-tank Chatham House believes money is even being laundered through international banks. With stolen oil , onsold to Asia, Latin America and the US, as well as dirty profits for the criminals and , some would say , corrupt figures within government and industry , the process is troubling .

The president of Nigeria' s Senate has suspended legislative proceedings in the National Assembly until Tuesday following a scuffle between parliamentarians and police. David Mark announced the closure on Thursday after police fired tear gas inside the parliament building . The target of the attack seemed to be Aminu Tambuwal , speaker of the House of Representatives , who defected to the opposition last month . Tambuwal said police had prevented him from entering the building, but a police spokesman told Al Jazeera the speaker and his entourage had been behaving in a disorderly manner by breaking through barriers and assaulting police officers on duty . " Following an intelligence report of a likely invasion of the House of Representatives by hoodlums and thugs, the Nigeria Police Force promptly deployed its personnel to the premises to prevent a breakdown of law and order ," a police statement said . The statement said Tambuwal " arrived the ...

President Barack Obama has ordered far -reaching changes to the US immigration system that will protect nearly 5 million people from deportation , testing the limits of his presidential powers and inviting a showdown with newly emboldened Republicans . In a speech on Thursday night , Obama announced plans to protect nearly 5 million immigrants living illegally in the United States from deportation by granting them work permits ; millions more would remain in limbo . Obama said his executive actions were a " commonsense" plan consistent with what previous presidents of both parties had done . " To those members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better , or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed , I have one answer : Pass a bill ," Obama said . Republicans , who take full control of Congress in January after capturing the Senate from Democrats , warned that Obama would face serious conse...

Boko Haram's brief occupation of Chibok last week showed that no part of northeastern Nigerian is safe from the insurgency — not even the town where the militants kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls earlier this year. Analysts say the violent Islamist radicals are making gains along Nigeria's border with Cameroon, and that the military has been unable to stop them. For many Chibok residents, the sight of militants entering their town with guns blazing on Friday only added insult to injury. After the group's five year campaign of violence across the country's northeast, which has resulted in the murder of thousands, the shuttering of schools and torching of markets, Chibok has become synonymous with its most brazen atrocity: the April 2014 mass kidnapping of more than 200 local schoolgirls. While the military has been criticized for not doing enough to prevent the kidnappings, Nigeria’s armed forces have since retaken the town. But one local elder, Ayuba Chibok, sai...

Former rebels now serving in Ivory Coast 's army have set up barricades and blocked streets outside barracks across the West African nation in protests over unpaid benefits and bonuses, military and diplomatic sources say. Demonstrations broke out on Tuesday at about a half dozen military bases in the commercial capital Abidjan and the second city of Bouake as well as in the towns of Korhogo , Bondoukou and Daloa , a hub of the country ' s cocoa industry . Some of the demonstrating soldiers were demanding promotions and payment of a five million CFA franc ( $ 9 , 557) bonus they say each was promised three years ago while fighting for the rebels supporting current President Alassane Ouattara . Others said they have been shortchanged on benefits . Residents in Korhogo and Daloa reported hearing bursts of gunfire . Cocoa buyers in Daloa said warehouses closed about midday due to the unrest.

Violence flares in Jerusalem and occupied West Bank following attack on synagogue that left five dead . Pitched street battles are being fought in Jerusalem in the aftermath of a deadly attack on a synagogue that killed five Israelis , with Palestinian youths facing off Israeli security forces across the tense city . In the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabal al - Mukaber - the hometown of the two Palestinians who carried out the attack on the Har Nof Synagogue on Tuesday morning - Israeli troops were confronted by angry Palestinians . The Israeli troops were headed to the area to demolish the homes of the Abu Jamal cousins who carried out the synagogue attack.

CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) — Mass murderer Charles Manson plans to marry a 26-year-old woman who left her Midwestern home and spent the past nine years trying to help exonerate him. Afton Elaine Burton, the raven-haired bride-to-be, said she loves the man convicted in the notorious murders of seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. No date has been set, but a wedding coordinator has been assigned by the prison to handle the nuptials, and the couple has until early February to get married before they would have to reapply. The Kings County marriage license, viewed Monday by The Associated Press, was issued Nov. 7 for the 80-year-old Manson and Burton, who lives in Corcoran — the site of the prison — and maintains several websites advocating his innocence. Burton, who goes by the name "Star," told the AP that she and Manson will be married next month.

He said for the President to win the war against insurgency, he has to shelve his gentility and introduce a hard stand. He said the war against insurgency could be won if the Federal Government was determined, adding that there were several ways of wiping out the sect and stopping the incessant killings. He added that if the Federal Government was ready to end Boko Haram today it will be achieved. “ Who are those in the sect that dare face the government? But unfortunately, I suspect there are some bigwigs behind these people. Mr President is being too gentle in his handling of the killings; but unfortunately, it is daily assuming dangerous dimension; gentility cannot win the war. Although gentility is not a crime but Mr President will have to be more aggressive because this is a security threat to the entire nation. Mr President will have to take a stand on the matter either to continue to tolerate the sect and leave Nigerians to be mourning every day with t...

Rasaq Akanni Okoya who got married to his youngest wife to death and mother of his 4 kids, delectable Sade Thomas Okoya who is now 35. They got married last year, and Okoye who is now the Eleganza Empire chairman and also the Aare of Lagos. The couple had a couple of years ago tied the knot but last year they decided to show the world a grand and societal wedding last year. the okoyas wife 1 CHIEF EMMANUEL IWUANYANWU & FRANCES CHINONYEREM 72 year old billionaire last year shut down the airways when he decided to marry a woman almost 50 years his junior. Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu is a politician and elder statesman and well known chairman of the Champion Newspaper and he got married to 26 year old Frances Chinonyerem Enwerem in a traditional ceremony in Owerri, Imo State and in a white wedding ceremony last year. The wedding was held just two years after the statesman lost his dear wife of over 40 years to cancer. CAROLINE DANJUMA & MUSA DANJUMA They are said...

“I came into a deeply divided family – a lot of my husband’s relatives, I never saw physically before he died. READ ALSO: Top 10 Most Beautiful Married Nigerian Celebrities Ojukwu Transport Company issues have been in court, they still have not resolved the issues concerning their father’s wealth, and this was an issue that started in 1966.. I am very comfortable if not for anything, for being the daughter of Chief C.C.Onoh, and my father took care of me, so the issue is not just about their family. But my husband was also a very serious person, so he anticipated all what is happening now by making sure that the most of my inheritance is bequeathed to me by the Deed of Gift, so prior to his death, most of those gifts had already been registered under my name. But I will say that at the end of the day, it’s not a question of acquisition, all I am saying is that I am the only wife that he wedded, first and foremost, at the Kaduna registr...

At least five Israelis killed along with two Palestinian attackers in early morning attack.17/11/14. A shooting at a synagogue in West Jerusalem has killed at least five Israelis and two Palestinian attackers , sources said . Al Jazeera 's correspondent in the city said the attack happened on Tuesday morning. The AP news agency also reported that two attackers were killed.

Two Twitter accounts belonging to American racial segregation org Ku Klux Klan, @KuKluxKlanUSA and @YourKKKCentral, have been seized by Anonymous as part of the hacker-activist entity's new campaign, #OpKKK . At 6:31pm PST Anonymous said it has knocked the website belonging to "Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan" -- the group responsible for the Ferguson threats -- offline.

Solange Knowles wed Alan Ferguson in New Orleans over the weekend. The couple stayed true to their laid-back style by bucking traditional wedding practices, especially in the fashion department. Ever the trend-setter. Solange, like many brides today, allowed her bridesmaids to choose a white dress that reflected their own style. (Even Janelle Monae eschewed her usual tuxedo look for a feminine frock!) “When bridesmaids are allowed to pick their own dress they are more comfortable because it’s a style that they feel comfortable in, and they feel good in it. Solange, like many brides today, allowed her bridesmaids to choose a white dress that reflected their own style. (Even Janelle Monae eschewed her usual tuxedo look for a feminine frock!) “When bridesmaids are allowed to pick their own dress they are more comfortable because it’s a style that they feel comfortable in, and they feel good in it

There have been thoughts that President Goodluck Jonathan may enforce “total emergency rule” on the states by employing military administrators to take over from the state governors. A top government official, said that the decision on whether to renew the emergency rule or not would be taken at a meeting of the National Defence Council holding on Monday (today). Earlier on Sunday, the Nigerian army said it retook and protected the northeastern town of Chibok, where Boko Haram rebels kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in April. At least 10 people were killed and some 60 others wounded Sunday when a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a busy mobile phone market in Azare area of Bauchi State