Suspected Nigerian terrorists opened fire and set off bombs at a market in Maiduguri on Monday, killing at least 30 people, a medic and a witness said.
African leaders regularly gave briefcases of cash to Jacques Chirac, the former French president, and Dominique de Villepin, the former prime minister, to fund election campaigns, an Africa expert close to President Nicolas
President Robert Mugabe's party is relentlessly pushing for elections that would bring an end to the government of national unity, but mediators and the Movement for Democratic Change say that reforms are needed first.