Growing African Insurgencies & Nigerian Oil

Roiled by antigovernment protests, revived insurgencies and its worst recession in three decades, Africa’s most populous nation is now fretting about the health of its president. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
 
Nigeria’s Ministry of Petroleum Resources has drawn up initiatives and investment plans that it hopes will finally end armed militancy in the Niger Delta, the West African state’s main oil-producing region, according to the country’s oil minister. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)