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...somewhere between 67 (the police estimate) and 630 (the Red Cross figure). "If you hear the sound of their guns you will think the heavens want to fall," says Mallam Mohamed Ahmed, 33, who fled on his motorbike. With the violence spreading to other states last week, President Olusegun Obasanjo declared a state of emergency in Plateau, suspended the elected governor and appointed a retired army general in his place. These steps, which were later ratified by the National Assembly, were necessary "to stem the tide of what has become near mutual genocide," according to Obasanjo. The state of emergency...
...OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, President of Nigeria
...manipulate religious and ethnic differences. At the center of the web is the all-powerful central government in Abuja. Nigerians have long called for a national debate on the way the country is governed. Many want greater autonomy for the states and a fairer distribution of the oil wealth. Obasanjo, a retired general and born-again southern Christian who was re-elected for a second term last year, has repeatedly rejected such a discussion, because, says another Western diplomat, "it would just be a long-drawn-out exercise of Nigerians complaining about the obvious instead of getting on with fixing...
...agency's board stopped short of U.S. demands that it refer the country to the U.N. Security Council. But the IAEA did warn of stern action in the event of "further serious Iranian failures." Tehran claims its program is for civil use. Come Get Him NIGERIA President Olusegun Obasanjo said he would surrender ousted Liberian leader Charles Taylor if the interim government in Monrovia asked him. Obasanjo has refused to hand over Taylor, who fled Liberia in August, to a U.N. court in Sierra Leone , where he faces war crimes charges. Sign of Hope KASHMIR India and Pakistan agreed...
...Charles Taylor." The uncertainty has already complicated the peace process. The rebels have refused to allow access to the port before Taylor leaves, so food in government- controlled Monrovia has remained expensive and scarce. The port is also key to any humanitarian effort, and according to an American official, Obasanjo has written to Bush asking him to help secure it. Meanwhile, businessmen and aid workers are reluctant to bring in much-needed food and medicine, fearing it will be confiscated if the conflict erupts again. "I can't write to my boss and say, 'Send me more expatriates...