Saturday, December 31, 2011

Nigeria - declares state of emergency in the north plagued by a deadly Islamist insurgency.

http://www.euronews.net/ Nigeria has declared a state of emergency in northern areas plagued by a deadly Islamist insurgency.

It comes a week after militants from the Boko Haram sect set off a string of explosions which killed at least 37 people and wounded dozens more.

The blasts raised fears that, Boko Haram, a movement styled on the Taliban and whose name means "Western education is forbidden", is trying to ignite sectarian strife in Africa's most populous nation and top oil producer.

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