Loomnie

1. Unsere Frauen bleiben frei! – On Islamophobia in Berlin

2. Threat to bomb 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos? Yes, it has something to do with Boko Haram.

3. Why Nigeria recognised Libya transition council – Minister for foreign affairs explains

4. On Libyan revolutionaries and racism. See also Jina Moore on the same topic

5. On the failure of African Union to help the continent’s starving people

No, it is not 419.

The BBC reports:

Charles Taylor ‘duped’ by Nigeria: Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has said he was duped by Nigeria into being arrested there in 2006.

Speaking at his war crimes trial in The Hague, he said Nigeria’s then-leader had reneged on a promise to let him leave the country freely.

He also claimed a plot involving the UK and the US led to his indictment.

Mr Taylor is accused of backing rebels, who committed widespread atrocities throughout the 1990s in Liberia’s neighbour Sierra Leone.

He was living in exile in Nigeria in 2006 when US pressure to put him on trial for alleged war crimes increased.

Mr Taylor now says the president of Nigeria at the time, Olusegun Obasanjo – who is currently a United Nations peace envoy – told him lies that caused him to be arrested.

The full story is here.