An American academic was injured when gunmen stormed the office of a Nigerian weekly newspaper. Professor Michael Watts was shot in the hand in the attack on the National Point in Port Harcourt. The paper recently reported on alleged links between local politicians and criminal gangs. Watts, director of the University of California's African studies centre in Berkeley, was attending a ceremony to honour the award-winning journalist Ibiba DonPedro. (Via San Jose Mercury News/AP)
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