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UPITN 6 2 75 NON-ALIGNED COUNTRIES CONFERENCE IN DAKAR
Leopold Sedar Senghor, President of Senegal attended the conference for Non-Aligned countries in Dakar. Among the countries in attendance were Mexico, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Lesotho, and the Phillipines The Prime Minister of Senegal,...
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Aftermath of blast at mosque which killed 35 people
Multiple explosions tore through the central mosque in Nigeria's second-largest city on Friday killing 35 people, police said.
One hundred and fifty others sustained various degrees of injury in the blasts in the city of Kano, State...
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Sierra Leone - Coup leaders open up military hqs
Sierra Leone's coup leaders opened up their military
headquarters to the media on Monday (9/6) after calling their
soldiers off the streets.
00:00 WS PAN military headquarters;
00:05 WS PAN soldiers walking in internal courtyard;
00:13...
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FILE Area where gunmen kidnapped two more oil workers
AP FILE: January 19, 2006
Yenagoa, Bayelsa State
1. Pull out of sign post which reads: "Welcome to Bayelsa State."
2. Military entrance with sand bags
3. Military personnel checking people in cars
4. Sign reading: "Stop for safety"...
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FILE Johnson-Sirleaf could be Africa's first elected female president
Tubmanburg, November 8, 2005
1. Candidate Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf walks to polling booth surrounded by UN security and officials
2. Johnson-Sirleaf places ballot in box
3. Johnson-Sirleaf has her finger painted by polling station...
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Senior Russian judge in military hospital after being hurt in car crash
Russia's Emergencies Ministry says it will send a plane to Ghana to bring back the country's chief justice after he was hurt in
a car crash.
Court spokesman Pavel Odintsov is quoted by Russia's Interfax news agency as saying he spoke...
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CAN828 MILITARY COUNCIL MEETS IN LAGOS
A Military Council, including the Nigerian Head of State Yakubu Gowon and the Head of the Navy Commodore Wey, meets to discuss Nigeria's future.
1. ms car pulls into car park
2. mcu pan administrator for Lagos arrives
3. ms onlookers...
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SYND 27 10 75 SHIPS CARRYING CEMENT JAMMED AT LAGOS HARBOR
Ships carrying cement jammed at Lagos harbor. (apapa)
1. gv harbour showing quayside ships moored
2. gv pan along ships waiting to unload
3. ms pan along ships, Brazilian ship shows name
4. gv ships waiting
5. various of ships...
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SYND 02 08 70 ANTI BRITISH DEMONSTRATION IN LAGOS
Anti British demonstration in Lagos streets, outside the British library where an efigy of British Premier, Edward heath, and the Union Jack are burned
1) ms demonstrators down street carrying placards
2) ms police stand by
3) ms...
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SYND 29 8 80
Samuel Doe, President of Liberia visited President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania in Dar Es Salaam.
1. ms Air Liberia plane taxiing
2. ms welcome crowd along
3. ws Doe at top of steps wavinf handkerchief, down steps and greeted by Nyerere
4....
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SYND 13 2 76 LAGOS COUP
The swearing-in of Nigeria's supreme military council in 1975 following the ousting of Genearl Yakubu Gowon by Brigadier Murtala Mohammed who was himself overthrown.
1. vs troops, vehicles and tanks in Lagos
2. ws and tilt up exterior of...
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AT LEAST 150 KILLED IN NIGERIA PLANE CRASH
A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in Nigeria's largest city Lagos on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled...
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UN says flights will continue despite imposition of UN no fly zone; aerials
Ivory Coast's entrenched incumbent president imposed a no-fly order on U.N. aircraft, possibly complicating the return of the internationally recognised election winner who was attending an African Union summit in Ethiopia on...
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Togo - Togo team returns home after attack in Angola
Togo team arrives home
Lome, Togo - 10 Jan 2010
(Audio as incoming)
1. Wide shot plane taxiing
2. Togo football team leaving plane
3. Coffin coming out of plane draped in Togo flag
4. Various team boarding bus
5. Various team in airport...
British Movietone
THE BATTLE AT SEA -
The Royal Navy, with the aid of 'Walrus' reconnaissance planes, is locating and sinking Nazi supply ships. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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LORD TEDDER OPENS NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY.
It was appropriately on Founder's Day that the new, permanent buildings of Ibadan University College, Nigeria were opened by Lord Tedder, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
British Movietone
PREMIER'S TOUR - A HIGHLIGHT
Looking closely at a development plan in Lagos, Mr Macmillan was also shown the plan for the impressive sports stadium, to be completed in time for Nigeria's Independence Day next October. Britain's Prime Minister was touring the...
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CAN768 SCENES IN ACCRA AFTER MILITARY COUP IN FEBRUARY 1966 AND OVERTHROWING NKRUMAH FROM POWER
Scenes in Accra, Ghana, after military coup in February 1966 and overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah from power.
1. ms tracking shot from moving car along road, signs on side of road read "Africa must be free"
2. ms tracking shot, driving past...
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Nigeria - Violence
Nigeria - A'math of attack by militants on police station
Bauchi - 26 July 2009
1. Wide of police station where attack is alleged to have taken place
2. Pan of suspected militants arrested by police
3. Debris and home made ammunition...
British Movietone
NIGERIAN INDEPENDENCE
Lagos racecourse was the scene, and it was the afternoon of Nigeria's great day with thousands awaiting the climax. Princess Alexandra, with Sir James Robertson (the retiring Governor General), must have enjoyed the whole jubilant...
British Movietone
SPORTS REVIEW OF THE YEAR
Movietone takes a look at the Sporting Highlights of 1974, including football, cricket and tennis. ® Also shown are the up and coming sports of grass skiing and hang gliding. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection....
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CAN693 EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE I OF ETHIOPIA VISITS IVORY COAST (COTE D'IVOIRE)
Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia arrives in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) for a state visit. He was greeted at the airport by President of Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) Mr Felix Houphouet-Boigny.
1. ws aircraft taxiing
2. ms...
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CAN703 FAJUYI AT IBADAN FOLLOWING COUP
The current situation in the Western Region of Nigeria is shown following on from the military coup. The damage done to the Democratic Party Building and the residence of the murdered Premier of the Western region Chief Samuel Akintola...
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CAN270 DELEGATES GATHER FOR CAIRO SUMMIT
Preparations under way for heads of state meeting of Organization of African Unity in Cairo. Shots of audience and delegates from various African countries.
1.vs flags of countries represented at meeting
2. ws conference interior:
3....