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Gun battles erupted in multiple locations in southern Nigeria’s oil hub of Port Harcourt on Sunday night, and witnesses said a group of foreigners was taken hostage from a nightclub amid the shooting. A witness said he saw more than 10 people go into the nightclub and drag a group of foreigners away while shooting into the air.

Residents of Nigeria’s serene southeastern city of Calabar fretted on Wednesday about the arrival of Charles Taylor, despite official reassurances that Liberia’s former president and indicted war criminal would pose no threat to national security or to his neighbours.