Topic: Bauchi State
AFP Global Edition | 2010-03-03 18:10:28
Some 14,000 people displaced by deadly sectarian violence in central Nigerian are leaving makeshift camps for lack of food, water and other basics, Red Cross workers and residents said Wednesday. Those fleeing the camps account for more than half of the 20,000-plus people uprooted by January's violence that claimed more than 300 lives in Plateau state's ...
AFP Global Edition | 2010-01-11 20:10:52
<div><p>Eleven children aged between five and 13 were being held at a juvenile jail in northern Nigeria Monday awaiting trial following sectarian clashes that left 70 people dead last month, police said.</p><p>"As far as we are concerned they are suspects and they will be arraigned before court ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-12-30 16:10:30
<div><p>Dozens more bodies were recovered after violent clashes between security forces and Islamists in northern Nigeria, bringing the death toll to around 70, a count at a hospital morgue showed on Wednesday.</p><p>An AFP reporter listed 42 bodies on the floor of the morgue in the city of ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-12-30 08:10:42
<div><p>At least 70 people died in violent clashes between security forces and Islamists in the northern Nigeria city of Bauchi, according to a hospital morgue body count Wednesday.</p><p>The clashes erupted Monday between members of a suspected Islamist sect and police and military forces.</p>< ...
