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Friday, 12 March 2010 18:02   
Is there no end to Nigeria cycle of violence

jos_massacre_c03-10Five young Nigerian men kneel in front of police officers at Plateau State CID Headquarters in the city of Jos.

"I killed three people," admits one youth in the local Hausa language. He looks almost child-like.

But he is referring to the horrific slaughter of at least 100 people in three nearby villages in the latest round in a brutal cycle of violence between Hausa-speaking Muslims and Christians from the Berom community.

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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 06:10   
Stop Trying To 'Save' Africa
Last fall, shortly after I returned from Nigeria, I was accosted by a perky blond college student whose blue eyes seemed to match the "African" beads around her wrists.
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