More Than 100 Dead, 1,000 Wounded in Nigeria Feud

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LAGOS (Reuters) - Clashes between rival Nigerian tribes of Christians and Muslims have killed more than 100 and wounded 1,000, a Nigerian Red Cross official said Friday.

Details of the latest fighting over farmland and livestock in the remote communities on the border between the central Plateau and Taraba states Tuesday have been slow to emerge, partly because telephone lines in Taraba are not working.

"It must have been more than 100, but we cannot confirm a specific number of dead," the Nigerian Red Cross Society official said.

A local newspaper in Plateau state reported at least 120 killed in attacks on the villages of Old Sarkin Kudu, New Sarkin Kudu, Auoshima One, Auoshima Two, Angon Masu and Sabon Layi. The bodies were scattered across the bush, the paper reported.

These attacks bring the death toll from two-and-a-half months of tit-for-tat fighting to at least 350, according to unofficial figures.

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1. ah, religion

it's a good thing

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2. 100 die in communal fighting in Nigeria

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3. Nigeria: Opposition Groups Call Protests Against Obasanjo

Opposition groups in Nigeria have called protest marches on Monday to demand the resignation of President Olusegun Obasanjo in defiance of police warnings that their protest plans are illegal.

"You can no longer use elections as a means of change because they've been so blatantly rigged using the security agencies that that option has been completely eliminated," Balarabe Musa, leader of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), told IRIN.


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At the same time in the southern commercial capital of Lagos, the United Action for Democracy (UAD) - a coalition of 26 human rights and pro-democracy groups - has scheduled simultaneous street protests.

Both groups accuse Obasanjo's government of rigging elections organised under his rule and failing to meet the expectations of good government by Nigerians. Their protests will demand that Obasanjo quits power and hands over to a national unity government that will work out a new constitutional order for the country of 126 million people, they said.

Musa told IRIN that apart from their complaints over the elections, the protests had become imperative because of worsening poverty, insecurity, corruption and the collapse of public services under Obasanjo.


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