With the Nigerian government in paralysis, there’s little hope of an effective response to the horrific violence in Jos.
Religious fervour and the effects of climate change may combine with explosive effect over the coming months and years.
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/ 31 October 2009
A senior Nigerian politician has warned that the country may break up if efforts to Islamicise the north continue.
The West is not, out of altruism, going to reverse the system of trade that impoverishes Africa. It is Africa that must fight politically to force the change. Why hasn’t it been done before now? The answer is that African governments have, in the past, been short-sighted and self-centred to a degree that borders on stupidity.