Nigeria: March 17, 2000

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In the southwest, Yoruba factions fighting over land ownership and political disputes have left at least six dozen people dead. There are two different disputes like this going on in the southwest, one near Port Harcourt, and another 230 kilometers southwest of the capital. Altogether, over a hundred have died in these two disputes, which are similar (fights over real estate and political differences.)

 

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