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/ 20 July 2004

Radical Nigerian Muslims still oppose polio vaccine

A radical Muslim group that triggered panic over polio immunisation in northern Nigeria said on Tuesday it remains opposed to the vaccine, despite it being passed as safe by a hardline state government. Polio vaccination was suspended in Kano state last year after claims that the drugs had been laced with chemicals to make African girls infertile.

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/ 14 May 2004

Riot-torn Kano tense but calm

The government of Nigeria put extra police and soldiers on the streets of several major cities across the country on Thursday to prevent any further outbreaks of religious violence between Muslims and Christians. The city of Kano remained tense but calm after two days of religious riots that claimed at least 30 lives.

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/ 12 May 2004

Thousands of Nigerian Christians flee riots

Thousands of Christians have fled the suburbs of the northern Nigerian city of Kano to seek police protection after coming under attack from Muslim mobs. Also, security was tightened on Wednesday in many parts of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, amid fears that the fighting between Muslims and Christians could spread south.

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/ 5 April 2004

Nigerian churches burned in Muslim riot

At least 10 churches were torched and one police station vandalised when Nigerian Muslims rioted after a young Christian defaced a copy of Islam’s holy Qur’an, a witness said on Monday. Rioting broke out on Saturday in the religiously mixed northern town of Makarfi, a local resident said by telephone.

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/ 8 March 2004

Kano starts enforcing Sharia

Business was good in the taverns of Kano as the city’s football fanatics gathered to watch the English FA Cup quarterfinals this weekend, and as the beer sellers stacked crate after crate of empties back onto their trucks they seemed unaware that this might be one of their last loads.