The acting President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan has placed the security forces in the centre on full alert following a fresh wave of sectarian violence near the city of Jos. Witnesses say, they saw more than a hundred corpses, many of them women and children in a village Dogo Nahawa just a few kilometers from the city. A spokesman for the Red Cross says scores of people have been taken to hospitals with machete wounds and they have been treated by Red Cross volunteers. In January, Jos was put under military curfew following violence between Christians and Muslims
News On AIR | March 8, 2010 9:05 AM
Nigerian troops on alert following fresh wave of sectarian violence