Rapports

Authorities Should Ensure Police Only Use Lethal Force as a Last Resort (London, May 17, 2004) -- Nigerian police deployed to quell violence between Muslims and Christians in the northern city of Kano have used excessive force and may have…

KANO, 14 May (IRIN) - At least 57,000 people have fled their homes following sectarian violence involving Christians and Muslims in northern and central Nigeria, officials said on Friday. More than 30,000 Christians have been displaced from their homes in…

KANO, 13 May (IRIN) - The government of Nigeria put extra police and soldiers onto the streets of several major cities across the country on Thursday to prevent any further outbreaks of religious violence between Muslims and Christians. Kano, the…

P 59/04 Brussels, 13 May 2004 - The Presidency, on behalf of the European Union, expresses its serious concern and distress at the constant incidents of death and destruction that are taking place in Nigeria. The European Union wishes to…

KANO, 12 May (IRIN) - Police have imposed a dawn to dusk curfew in Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria, where about 30 people have been killed in two days of religious violence, sparked off by a Muslim…

KANO, 11 May (IRIN) - Thousands of angy Muslims took to the streets in Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria, on Tuesday, to protest at the killing of more than 600 fellow Muslims in a brutal attack by…

Public Statement AI Index: AFR 44/015/2004 (Public) News Service No: 120 As the Nigerian government deploys security forces to restore order in Yelwa, Shendam local government area in Plateau State, following a recent outbreak of violence between Fulani cattle herders and Tarok…

Government Should Investigate Yelwa Massacre, Provide Security (London, May 11, 2004) - The Nigerian government should immediately conduct an independent investigation into the massacre of several hundred people in Yelwa on May 2, Human Rights Watch said today. The federal and…

SG/SM/9300, AFR/923 Following is the text of a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General is deeply concerned over reports of growing communal clashes in Nigeria, and condemns the attacks in the village of Yelwa in PlateauState…

LAGOS, 10 May (IRIN) - A total of 7,500 people displaced from their home's following a murderous attack by Christian militiamen on the mainly Muslim town of Yelwa in central Nigeria have been evacuated and put in the care…