Call for end to Nigeria exclusion

London - Commonwealth foreign ministers yesterday recommended that Nigeria's three-year suspension be ended, virtually guaranteeing…

London - Commonwealth foreign ministers yesterday recommended that Nigeria's three-year suspension be ended, virtually guaranteeing that Africa's most populous nation will regain its place at the end of May, diplomats said.

Nigeria was suspended from the 54-nation grouping of mainly former British colonies in 1995 after it executed nine minority rights activists, including the writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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