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Nigeria: Why Kaduna Is Different
Daily Trust, 30 July 2020
For one week now, our family has accommodated a close relation and her two teen-age daughters. They arrived from Kafanchan in the dead of the night, clearly traumatized. Her… Read more »
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Nigeria: Killings - Call El-Rufai to Order, Southern Kaduna Elders Tell Buhari
This Day, 29 July 2020
The Southern Kaduna Elders Forum (SOKAF), led by a former military governor of old Rivers state, Gen. Zamani Lekwat (rtd), has broken its silence over the killings and wanton… Read more »
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Nigeria: Southern Kaduna Crisis Not Ethnic Cleansing - Military Commander
Premium Times, 28 July 2020
The Commander of Operation Safe Haven, Chukwuemeka Okonkwo, has described the killings in Southern Kaduna as the activities of criminal elements on both sides and not ethnic… Read more »
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Nigeria: Southern Kaduna - Governor El-Rufai, CAN Disagree Over Cause of Killings
Vanguard, 29 July 2020
Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, and the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday disagreed over the cause of killings in Southern Kaduna. Read more »
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Nigeria: Religion, Ethnicity Compounding Communal Violence in Southern Kaduna - El-Rufai
Daily Trust, 29 July 2020
Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasiru El-Rufai Tuesday described the prevailing insecurity in southern Kaduna as an act of criminality compounded by the injection of religion and… Read more »
What Lies Behind Nigeria's Kaduna Clashes?
While Kaduna State Governor Malam Nasiru El-Rufai has described the prevailing insecurity in southern Kaduna as "an act of criminality compounded by the injection of religion and ethnicity," the Southern Kaduna Elders Forum (SOKAF) called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call him to order on the killings. Meanwhile, an army official has said the clashes were not "ethnic cleansing".
InFocus
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The Covid-19 pandemic further complicates peacebuilding across Africa, where vast challenges - infrastructure, water, roads and jobs - and high levels of inequality feed conflict. ... Read more »
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Peacebuilding is always hard, and even more difficult when violent conflict is spreading. U.S, French and African policymakers are struggling to balance military responses to ... Read more »
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At least 50 people have been killed while several others injured as gunmen suspected to be bandits attacked four villages in Kaduna State. Read more »
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Fatima Madaki, introduced in the first episode of Fridays with Fatima, works with Search for Common Ground Nigeria, which focuses on peacebuilding in Nigeria's communities, where ... Read more »
