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Nationwide Protests Rattle Nigeria
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Demonstrators hit the streets to protest food insecurity in Nigeria, an al Qaeda-linked group in Niger takes two Russian hostages, and Zimbabwe cracks down on pro-democracy activists. If …