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First on the Front Line in Nigeria |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / FEATURE |
| Author: Patrick Bawa and Iris Meierhans |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,210 Words, 8,228 Characters |
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Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is no stranger to violence. Since independence in 1960, it has undergone six military coups and endured the Biafran civil war, which claimed a million lives in the late 1960s. Despite a return to civilian rule in 1999, the country continues to be dogged by bloody intercommunal violence. The Nigerian Red Cross Society has risen to the challenge.
“When the violence erupted, I was called up along with the rest of the team,” says Baba Gana Isa. “Though we were in danger ourselves, we carried on regardless and attended to the victims.” Baba Gana Isa was one of the Nigerian Red Cross volunteers mobilized when the Danish cartoon crisis sparked a wave of violence in five states of Nigeria in February 2006, leaving dozens of people dead, hun...
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--"Nigeria: In Search of Democracy," by Darren Kew, May 2000 (Article #20876)
--"Nigeria in the Throes of Reform," by Ben Barber, July 1999 (Article #18413)
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