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Nigeria will surrender ousted Liberian leader Charles Taylor for trial if that country asks, President Olusegun Obasanjo, Taylor’s host in exile, said on Tuesday. Obasanjo has resisted surrendering Taylor on an indictment by a United Nations-backed court — but made it clear on Tuesday he would listen if Liberia itself asked.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has not been invited to the Commonwealth summit due to be held in Nigeria next month, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Tuesday. Mugabe and Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf will not be attending as their nations are suspended from the Commonwealth’s ruling councils.