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AFP - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon arrived in Nigeria on Friday on a the last leg of a west African trip that will take him to the country’s oil-rich but restive southern region. .

He is scheduled to sign pacts on legal cooperation and helping sub-Saharan Africa’s most populous nation improve security in the Niger Delta.

Accompanied by Total chief executive Christophe de Margerie, the prime minister will visit an oil platform run by the French giant, which gets 10 percent of its oil production from the region.

He will make an address to the 16-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), based in Abuja, before flying off to the restive oil-rich delta on Saturday.

MEND has been behind a series of kidnappings of staff and attacks on oil installations in the past three years.

The most active armed group in the Delta is the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) which claims to be fighting for a greater share of Nigeria’s oil wealth for local people.

Unrest in the region has reduced Nigeria’s daily output to 1.6 million barrels in January 2006.76 million barrels compared with 2.

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.Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar has recalled how he once performed oral sex on an actress to show how he wanted it done.
“I play all the roles on set,” Almodovar told a news conference at the Cannes Film Festival..
“In a film I made a long time ago . I even performed cunnilingus on an actress to show the actor how to do it,” he said..
It recounts the tragic love affair between a young actress and a director and stars Oscar winner Penelope Cruz.
Almodovar is at Cannes to attend the premiere of his latest oeuvre Broken Embraces.
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