Ethnic and religious tensions between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south, discrimination by southerners against immigrants from the north, and frustration over corruption in a country where most subsist on less than $2 a day while top officials have access to billions in oil revenues have set off the latest round of clashes, much as they have in the past.
While more than 300 were killed in Nigeria’s presidential election four years ago, the death toll appeared to be higher this year, as the violence that flared in the wake of the re-election of Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south, instigated a cycle of action and reaction.
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