Nigeria Gallery

Nigeria country map

2011 edition

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A man rinses soot from his face, Lagos 2006

A man rinses soot from his face at the scene of a gas pipeline explosion near Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos December 26, 2006. Up to 500 people were burned alive on Tuesday when fuel from a vandalised pipeline exploded in Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, emergency workers said. Hundreds of residents of the Abule Egba district went to scoop fuel using plastic containers after thieves punctured the underground pipeline overnight to siphon fuel into a road tanker, locals said. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA)

Tuareg Girl from the Hoggar Mountains, Algeria

Tuareg Girl from the Hoggar Mountains, Algeria. Taken during the expedition led by Captain Angus Buchanan to the Sahel region of the Sahara in 1922-23. A film shot during the expedition, Crossing the Great Sahara, records the 3500 mile journey, which began in Kano, in Northern Nigeria early in 1922 and ended in Tougourt, Algeria in April 1923. Buchanan had previously led an expedition into the Sahara in 1919-1920. Date: circa 1922

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