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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...