I am sure the inter-religious communal violence in Nigeria featured in SWJ Blog news summaries; it certainly appeared in the BBC and the odd newspaper report like in The Spectator recently:http://newstaging.spectator.widearea...ill-kill.thtml
This is a rather pessimistic overview:http://www.opendemocracy.net/martin-...cs-of-massacre
The author is:He ends with:Martin Shaw is a historical sociologist of war and global politics, and professor of international relations and politics at the University of Sussex.I fear that real politics mean that this 'challenge' is far from any agenda in the 'world' let alone the sometimes interventionist West, nor more locally. Yes, Hollywood had a role with a Bruce Willis film set in Nigeria and a US SOF intervention against orders; 'Tears of the Sun' see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_of_the_SunThe repeated massacres of hundreds of people are a challenge not only to Nigeria but to the world.
Now, would AFRICOM be watching such developments - in a country where the USA has a strategic interest and to my limited knowledge no large presence of US citizens?
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