Nigeria: For This to Be the Last Jos Communal Crisis

2 February 2010
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Some peace returned to Jos during the week and has so far held. The cost is being counted. Over 300 persons were reported dead and wealth in billions of Naira gone up in flames. Thousands of internally displaced persons, whose property some how escaped the arson have returned to their homes. Normalcy is being achieved amazingly fast, as people pick up pieces of their lives to go on living.

But I am worried, that the clearing storm is soon returning to gather as the thick clouds of the next cyclone, regrettably in the North of the country, if not Plateau again. My worry stems from the emerging trends in the packaging of "religious" crisis.

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