Possible Clues:

• Where nairas are spent
• Airing disarray about European country
• Possible home for African river spirit is erected
• Grain that is redistributed here in Africa
• One country or another annexes odd bits of Iraq
• Neighbor of Cameroon
• Country river — what's with it receding?
• African OPEC member
• Country's state, say, during rising
• Ending near Milan, odd characters leave the country