Nigeria: Thousands Still Displaced in Nigeria

5 August 2004

Jos — MORE than 258 000 people are still displaced from religious clashes in Nigeria that killed hundreds of people in the central state of Plateau three months ago, officials said yesterday.

Christian militia massacred hundreds of Muslims in Plateau in early May after a series of tit-for-tat killings over land and political power, forcing thousands to flee and prompting President Oluse-gun Obasanjo to assume emergency powers.

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