Nigeria’s detention of a U.S.-based journalist has sparked calls back home for his release and illustrates the country’s escalating media crackdown
Few people outside Nigeria noticed when armed agents of the west African nation’s security services in August snatched from his hotel room a U.S.-based journalist and activist who runs an online news website.
Now the State Department and U.S. lawmakers are calling for the release of Omoyele Sowore, framing the case as a test of the democratic credentials of Africa’s largest economy and one of America’s top counterterrorism allies.
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