MADRID, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- A Spanish doctor who botched a cosmetic surgery has been sentenced to a year in prison for the death of a former first lady of Nigeria, officials said.

LAGOS, Nigeria, July 28 (UPI) -- Islamic militants in Nigeria, calling themselves "the Taliban," have launched a series of attacks against security forces in recent days, raising the specter of a jihadist-inspired sectarian war in Africa's most populous country and leading oil producer.

ABUJA, Nigeria, May 15 (UPI) -- Ten members of the Nigerian National Assembly are accused of siphoning $42 million from public funding, authorities allege.

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, April 9 (UPI) -- The United Nations and the African Union are calling on leaders in Congo take steps to implement agreements made for peace.

UPI Almanac for Friday, Feb. 27, 2009.

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- U.N. officials facilitating peace talks between the Democratic Republic of the Congo government and rebel leaders say progress is being made.

Nigerian forces said they have killed the head of one of the country's notorious gangs in the oil-rich Niger Delta, part of an ongoing battle between gunmen and Nigerian forces in the region.

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A third session of peace talks is under way in Kenya aimed at bringing an end to rebel violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

While violence is likely to persist next year in the oil-rich Niger Delta, Africa's largest energy producer capped 2008 with the capture of a leading member of the country's most notorious militant group.