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...from its predominantly Christian south runs straight through the Nigerian state of Plateau. The boundary is normally hard to discern. For one thing, people in the same town can belong to different religions but work next to each other, cheer the same football team and even intermarry. But in Nigeria, every few years the divide becomes obvious and stark. Made desperate by poverty and joblessness, and often goaded by manipulative politicians, extremists on both sides go at each other in vicious battles. Plateau state, where cattle herders from the north and farmers from the south vie for control...
...OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, President of Nigeria...
...Afghanistan to the decision to hold the Miss World beauty pageant in Abuja, the capital. Many Nigerians argue that the real reason for the violence is not ethnic or religious division - most Nigerians have peacefully coexisted for centuries - but the scramble for scarce resources and political clout. Though Nigeria produces some 2.4 million barrels of oil a day, most Nigerians live in poverty. The average person earns $290 a year. Because the money from oil exports trickles down only through a corrupt system of patronage, those in office hold huge power. To gain that power, politicians manipulate religious and ethnic...
...done. The Iraqi insurgents are only prolonging the occupation. A democratic government in Iraq cannot emerge during a state of chaos. Let Iraq learn from Japan, which was able to achieve postwar greatness because the Japanese exercised restraint during the U.S. Occupation after World War II. Okoro Ndukwe Aba, Nigeria...
...capacities as head of U.N. Peacekeeping and later as Secretary-General, Annan has been at the center of many successful U.N. projects and has catalyzed fundamental changes in the scope of the organization’s peacekeeping operations. He promoted a changeover to civilian government in Nigeria in 1998, assembled an international response to the 1999 conflict in East Timor, established an ongoing mission on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border in 2000—largely restoring security after a war that killed tens of thousands—and worked to verify Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon that same year...