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Also speaking today were the representatives of the United Kingdom, Uganda, Mexico, Costa Rica, France, Libya, Japan, Burkina Faso, China, Croatia, United States and Viet Nam.
UN: Security Council
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Various heads of state will attend, including Burkina Faso and Nigeria, according to the Economic Community Of West African States, the regional bloc.
CNN: January 19, 2013 -- Updated 0754 GMT (1554 HKT)
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Dan Fodio, an ethnic Fulani Islamic scholar, rose up against the Hausa rulers of what is now northern Nigeria and Niger and created an empire which stretched from modern-day Burkina Faso to Cameroon, becoming one of Africa's largest pre-colonial states.
BBC: The Sultan of Sokoto Mohammadu Maccido