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  • Foreign Secretary condemns latest bomb attacks in Nigeria

    Foreign Secretary condemns the double bomb attack in the marketplace in Jos, Central Nigeria, which killed over 100 people.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK deploys RAF Sentinel to help search for missing schoolgirls

    The UK has sent an RAF Sentinel to assist the Nigerian government in the search for more than 200 teenage girls.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Secretary welcomes constructive regional summit on Boko Haram

    Foreign Secretary welcomes concrete agreements at Paris Summit on tackling Boko Haram and offers UK follow-up meeting.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Minister for Africa visits Nigeria

    UK’s package of support to help locate missing Nigerian school girls welcomed by President Jonathan.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Office Minister to visit Nigeria

    Foreign Office Minister Mark Simmonds to travel to Nigeria for high-level meetings to discuss further UK assistance.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK experts arrive in Nigeria

    UK team has arrived in Abuja to support Nigerian government in its response to the abduction of over 200 school girls.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • PM call with President Goodluck Jonathan

    The Prime Minister David Cameron spoke to the Nigerian President about the abduction of more than 200 girls in northern Nigeria.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Secretary comments on abduction of school girls in Nigeria

    Foreign Secretary condemns kidnap as “disgusting and immoral” and repeats UK offer of help.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • FCO Minister condemns bomb attack in Abuja, Nigeria

    FCO Minister for Africa, Mark Simmonds, condemns bomb attack in Abuja and offers continued UK support for Nigeria.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Secretary condemns abduction of school girls in northern Nigeria

    Foreign Secretary appalled by the abduction of up to 100 school girls in northern Nigeria, offers UK help.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Secretary condemns bomb attack in Abuja, Nigeria

    Foreign Secretary condemns Abuja bomb attack and offers continued UK support for Nigeria.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Country case study: Nigeria – the response to terrorism

    A country case study on the response to terrorism in Nigeria from the 2013 Human Rights and Democracy Report.

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  • Chevening Scholarship places in developing countries tripled for 2015/16

    The Budget announced on 19 March included a tripling of Chevening places in developing countries for the 2015-16 academic year.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Secretary attends EU-Africa Summit

    EU and Africa agree to work together on peace and security, trade and investment and development.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Minister for Africa gives keynote address at Nigerian Centenary

    Mark Simmonds spoke on 'African choices in a new Nigerian century.'

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Minister for Africa to join Nigerian centenary celebrations

    Minister for Africa arrives in Nigeria today for visit to Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja, where he’ll join the centenary celebrations

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Secretary expresses disappointment with anti-LGBT legislation in Nigeria

    The Foreign Secretary expressed disappointment that the Nigerian Same Sex Marriage Bill has received Presidential assent.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Minister highlights kidnap threat in Sahel and North Africa

    FCO Minister Robertson met travel industry representatives to emphasise the continuing threat of terrorist kidnap in Sahel and North Africa.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign Secretary statement on the death of Nelson Mandela

    Foreign Secretary William Hague: Nelson Mandela was one of the greatest moral and political leaders of our time.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • The UK’s Partnership with Africa

    Foreign Office Minister Mark Simmonds spoke to the Royal Africa Society about the UK's partnership with Africa.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government