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  • Useful as he was below, I soon had to call Warri up to keep off the poor famished camels, who, in their eagerness, nearly jostled me into the hole.

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • Yesterday, a woman and a little boy were shot dead in the city of Warri, which is far away from any of the militant camps.

    Democracy Now! 2009

  • I was contacted and asked if I would be interested in going to another location in Nigeria, a city of over 1 million inhabitants called "Warri", in order to head up a small team of procedure writers.

    So Many Happenings Bea Amaya 2008

  • I was contacted and asked if I would be interested in going to another location in Nigeria, a city of over 1 million inhabitants called "Warri", in order to head up a small team of procedure writers.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Bea Amaya 2008

  • Outlying provinces of the Benin Empire, such as Warri and other coastal towns, began to break away in order to trade directly with Europeans.

    1679 2001

  • Breaden had with him his black-boy "Warri," an aboriginal from the McDonnell Ranges of Central

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • In Mr. Akindele's office in Warri, the oil hub of the Western part of the Niger Delta, one of the calls fielded on a recent day by the official was from a citizen reporting oil pollution from a nearby Chevron Corp. facility.

    Oil Hearing to Cast Spotlight on West Africa Benoit Faucon 2011

  • I was in Nigeria the first time MEND used this tactic earlier in 2010 in Warri, a city in Nigeria's Delta State in the Niger Delta Region, and also another militant group attacked a facility in the commercial capital, Lagos during the same period.

    Amb. Robin Renee Sanders: Nigeria Bombing: Change Needed By Peaceful Means Amb. Robin Renee Sanders 2010

  • I was in Nigeria the first time MEND used this tactic earlier in 2010 in Warri, a city in Nigeria's Delta State in the Niger Delta Region, and also another militant group attacked a facility in the commercial capital, Lagos during the same period.

    Amb. Robin Renee Sanders: Nigeria Bombing: Change Needed By Peaceful Means Amb. Robin Renee Sanders 2010

  • News reports on Tuesday quote prosecutor Shaun Abrahams as saying the additional charges relate to a March 2010 bombing in the southern Nigerian city of Warri.

    South Africa Plans More Charges Against Terror Suspect 2011

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