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Nigerian Insecurity Requires Urgent Attention, UN Rapporteur Warns

Reuters

   ABUJA - Nigeria's multiple security problems have created a crisis that
   requires urgent attention and could lead to instability in other
   African countries if it is not addressed, a United Nations rapporteur
   said Monday.

   Security forces in Africa's most populous country are trying to tackle
   a decade-long Islamist insurgency in the northeast, banditry in the
   northwest and bloody clashes between nomadic herdsmen and farming
   communities over dwindling arable land in central states.

   Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary
   or arbitrary executions, said Nigeria was a "pressure cooker of
   internal conflict."

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