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Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, experiences widespread looting and violent attacks by rioters focused on foreigners. Police are currently outnumbered and many businesses have been set on fire. The riots follow the death of a taxi driver reportedly shot by Nigerian drug dealers after they realized he had seen them complete a drug deal and had also seen their supplier. Bus services are suspended and authorities say the capital is currently unsafe.
2019-08-28

The death toll of a cholera outbreak in Yobe and Borno, Nigeria, rises to 97.
2018-09-22

Two suicide bombings at mosques kill at least 33 people in the northeast Nigerian cities of Yola and Maiduguri.
2015-10-23

The BBC reports that Nigeria will be removed from the list of countries where polio is endemic.
2015-09-25

Further violence breaks out in the Nigerian city of Jos following bombings earlier this week.
2010-12-26

The Nigerian military exhumes seven fresh corpses from shallow graves near Jos in the latest round of apparent revenge killings.
2010-04-21

Nigeria recalls its ambassador to Libya after Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi suggests the country be partitioned into two separate Christian and Muslim nations.
2010-03-18

The Nigerian Army regains control of the city of Jos after religious violence killed more than 200 people.
2010-01-20

Algerian US ambassador Abdellah Baali and Nigerian Information Minister Dora Akunyili are upset at the decision of the United States to subject Algerians and Nigerians to tougher-than-usual security tests at airports, saying it is "discrimination" and "risks ties". Both have officially complained.
2010-01-6