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NIGERIA: Displaced go home as calm settles over Maiduguri

Posted in Actors, Africa, Blogroll, Body Count, Civilian Casualties, Country, Displacement, Government, Insurgents, Nigeria, Other, Region, Type of Harm, tagged , , , , , , , on August 5, 2009|

By IRIN
KANO, 5 August 2009 (IRIN) – Most of the 4,000 Maiduguri residents in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria who fled last week’s violence to shelter in military and police barracks on the outskirts of town, have now returned home, according to the Nigerian Red Cross (NRC).

“Most of the IDPs [internally displaced people] have left the camps save for those whose homes were either burnt or looted after they had fled during the violence,” Adamu Abubakar, head of the Nigerian Red Cross in neighbouring Bauchi state, told IRIN.

Up to 4,000 residents of Maiduguri fled violence that broke out on 27 July between Nigerian security forces and the Boko Haram radical Islamic group, killing 780 people, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).  (more…)

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