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...gender. In countries across Africa, groups are recognizing this need to work with one another in order to make real progress on eradicating the disease. In Mozambique, Together Against Malaria brings Christian and Muslim leaders together to utilize religious infrastructure to improve access to malaria prevention measures. In Nigeria the same is being done by the Nigerian Inter-faith Action Association, which will help distribute 60 million bed nets in remote parts of the country that are inaccessible to government agencies...
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...Sectarian conflict erupted most profoundly in 1967, when three primarily Igbo eastern states seceded under the name Republic of Biafra, sparking a bloody three-year civil war. The attempt to break away ultimately failed, and Nigeria reintegrated the Igbo majority region in 1970. (See a TIME cover story on Nigeria...
...Violence among Muslim and Christian ethnic groups was largely kept in check by a succession of military regimes until 1999, when Nigeria returned to civilian rule. While democracy permits greater freedom of religious expression in Nigeria, it has also intensified the political and economic friction between ethnic groups. Rioting in 2001 killed more than 1,000 people, and subsequent outbreaks in 2004 and 2008 killed another thousand. Smaller but no less vicious attacks in 2009 claimed dozens of lives. (See "Is Goodluck Jonathan the Answer to Nigeria's Woes...
...Police have arrested more than 90 people for their alleged roles in this week's massacre. Washington and international human-rights groups are calling on Nigeria to prosecute and punish those responsible. "It's time to draw a line in the sand," Human Rights Watch researcher Corinne Dufka said in a statement. "The authorities need to protect these communities, bring the perpetrators to book and address the root causes of violence." But even if that happens, the violence is unlikely to end altogether...