Category: sectarian violence

Protest of Sectarian Violence in Jos, Nigeria: Corpses Hauled to Governor’s Front Door

JOS, Nigeria—Anguished citizens of terrorized Plateau State, Nigeria, forced lawmakers to see their pain up close and personal Aug. 25 by hauling the corpses of victims to their front door. They marched by the thousands to the Government House in Jos, the cosmopolitan capital of Nigeria’s northern states, beside biers of flatbed trucks carrying the…


Nigeria Pounded by Spread of Sectarian Killings

Christian residents of Nigeria’s Plateau State are ducking for cover as reprisal killings mount both in the state capital of Jos and in the rural conflict zones of Bassa County, 12 miles west of the city. The violence against Christian residents has stepped up after a massacre of 22 Fulani Muslims by a Christian mob…


Nigeria Battered by Spread of Sectarian Killings

Christian residents of Nigeria’s Plateau state are ducking for cover as reprisal killings mount both in the state capital of Jos and in the rural conflict zones of Bassa County, 12 miles west of the city. The violence against Christian residents has grown since a massacre of 22 Fulani Muslims by a Christian mob on…


UK PM Urges Calm as Belfast Protesters Hijack Bus, Attack Police

BELFAST—Crowds of youths in a pro-British area of Belfast set a hijacked bus on fire and attacked police with stones in the latest of a series of nightly outbreaks of violence that began last week. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was “deeply concerned” by the violence, which has injured dozens of police officers…