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Archive Home > 2010 > March > 09 > Toll of ethnic violence in Nigeria climbs to 500

Toll of ethnic violence in Nigeria climbs to 500

By Adam Nossiter / The Bulletin
March 9, 2010

DAKAR, Senegal — Officials and human rights groups in Nigeria sharply increased the count of the dead after a weekend of vicious ethnic violence, saying Monday that as many as 500 people — many of them women and children — may have been killed near the central city of Jos, long a flashpoint for....

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