Michelle Faul

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This Oct. 17, 2011 photo provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows the exterior of the Malibu, Calif., mansion of the son of Equitorial Guinea's president, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, during the execution of a search warrant. Mangue must sell the $30 million Malibu mansion, a Ferrari and Michael Jackson memorabilia and then give the proceeds to the citizens of his impoverished country, under a settlement announced Friday, Oct. 10, 2014 by U.S. authorities who said he bought the lavish items with money stolen from the African nation. Mangue, who is also Equatorial Guinea's second vice president, agreed to turn over $20 million from the sale of these assets to a charitable organization to be used to benefit the people of his country, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Another $10.3 million will be forfeited to the U.S. government. (AP Photo/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

US deal with Equatorial Guinean missed chance

Michelle Faul · October 11, 2014 5:39 pm

FILE- In this Monday, May.12, 2014 file image taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, shows the alleged missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. Nigerian's Islamic extremists have freed one of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls, Nigerian police reported Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014 but a community leader says she's too traumatized to identify herself properly. Hundreds of girls, women and boys have been kidnapped by Boko Haram fighters in the past year but the abduction of more than 270 schoolgirls and young women from a school in the remote northeastern town of Chibok in April inspired a worldwide campaign for their freedom. (AP Photo/File)

National Security

Nigerian schoolgirl freed by extremists comes home

Michelle Faul · September 26, 2014 7:39 pm

Nigeria: Church obstructed rescue, lives lost

Michelle Faul · September 19, 2014 2:59 pm

Nigeria sent $9.3 million cash for arms in SAfrica

Michelle Faul · September 19, 2014 2:38 pm

Amnesty: Nigerian police routinely use torture

Michelle Faul · September 18, 2014 6:44 pm

Vigilante and local hunters armed with guns gather outside the Emir's palace in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. The United States is preparing to launch a "major" border security program to help Nigeria and its neighbors combat the increasing number and scope of attacks by Islamic extremists, a senior U.S. official for Africa said Thursday. Nigerian insurgents have begun attacking villages in neighboring Cameroon and have been seizing land in northeast Nigeria where they proclaimed an Islamic caliphate. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola)

Hundreds fear extremists, flee north Nigerian city

Michelle Faul · September 5, 2014 4:34 pm

FILE- In this Sunday, May 18, 2014 file photo some of the parents of the kidnapped school girls sit outside a compound during a meeting in Chibok, Nigeria. At least 11 parents of the more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls will never see their daughters again. Since the mass abduction of the schoolgirls by Islamic extremists three months ago, at least 11 of their parents have died and their hometown, Chibok, is under siege from the militants, residents report. Seven fathers of kidnapped girls were among 51 bodies brought to Chibok hospital after an attack on the nearby village of Kautakari this month, said a health worker who insisted on anonymity for fear of reprisals by the extremists. At least four more parents have died of heart failure, high blood pressure and other illnesses that the community blames on trauma due to the mass abduction 100 days ago, said community leader Pogu Bitrus, who provided their names. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

11 parents of Nigeria’s abducted girls die

Michelle Faul · July 22, 2014 8:46 pm

‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ to premiere in Nigeria

Michelle Faul · July 8, 2014 5:47 pm

Freed from mental ward, atheist gets death threats

Michelle Faul · July 3, 2014 1:57 pm

Leaders get immunity at new African rights court

Michelle Faul · July 1, 2014 3:56 pm

In this Sunday, June 1, 2014 photo, Maimuna Abdullahi sits outside her school in Kaduna, Nigeria. Maimuna wore the scars of an abused woman anywhere: A swollen face, a starved body, and, barely a year after her wedding, a divorce. But for Maimuna, it all happened by the time she was 13. Maimuna is one of thousands of divorced girls in Nigeria who were married as children and then got thrown out by their husbands or simply fled. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigeria girl among thousands of divorced children

Michelle Faul · June 28, 2014 3:48 pm

Nigeria family forces atheist son into mental ward

Michelle Faul · June 25, 2014 2:58 pm