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Tension is still up a notch between the Nigerian government and the separatist group Biafra Biafra Indigenous People (IPOB), whose leader has been detained for several weeks, both sides accusing each other of murder.
These charges are particularly heavy sense they refer to one of the darkest pages in the history of Nigeria when, in the 1960s, shortly after the country's independence, Igbo Christians living in the Muslim north had been persecuted by the Hausa.
The latest news in nigeria today for the violence had resulted in 1967 secession of Biafra, a deprived area of southeastern majority of Igbo populous country. After three years of war and the death of a million people, many from disease and famine, Biafra had finally capitulated and returned to Nigeria. Since then, the separatists IPOB continue to campaign for the secession of Biafra.
This month, Nigerian secret services accused them of having kidnapped and killed 55 farmers and Hausa Fulani, two predominantly Muslim ethnic groups, mainly present in northern Nigeria.
The Nigerian Department of State Services (DSS), who said he found the bodies summarily buried in a forest in the southeast of the country, bastion of IPOB.
Since the war in Biafra, Igbo often say they feel marginalized by the federal government, which takes them out of key positions and depriving them of major infrastructure projects in their area.
President Muhammadu Buhari, himself a Muslim Fulani adopts vis-a-vis the IPOB which only fuels this strong sense of injustice in the first African economy.
While growth is at its lowest level for over ten years and inflation and fuel shortages create a ras-le-bol, the alleged attacks by Fulani in the southeast let fear new ethnic tensions and the rise of separatist aspirations.
'Bloody rehearsal' -
Latest news in nigeria Violence to defend grazing rights between Fulani herdsmen, Muslim nomads who travel with their herds, farmers and Christians are commonplace in central Nigeria.
But earlier this week, southeast, in Enugu State, in the heart of the Igbo country, seven farmers in this ethnic group were killed by Fulani herders, police said.
How long should we stay silent? "Indignant Prince Emmanuel Kanu the demonstrations for his release and Aba Owerri, in the southeast, had to stop because of "repeated murders" committed by security forces, according to Prince Emmanuel Kanu.
According to the lawyer of Human Rights Onkere Nnamdi Kingdom, more than 50 protesters were killed by police and army between October and February.
Radicalization risks
The detention of Mr. Kanu and the fate of his supporters echo the case of Ibrahim Zakzaky, the head of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), imprisoned since clashes between its Shiites and the army in December.
According to latest news in nigeia Buhari, elected last year, won several victories against the Islamist Boko Haram, whose violence has claimed more than 20,000 lives since 2009. But the former military ruler tends to apply force for requesting records more diplomacy, says Nnamdi Obasi, Nigeria specialist at the International Crisis Group.
"The prolonged detention of Mr. Kanu has not the intended purpose, if the goal was to stifle the unrest," he thinks, warning: "This muscular response is not at all necessary and may lead to radicalization "of IPOB.
These charges are particularly heavy sense they refer to one of the darkest pages in the history of Nigeria when, in the 1960s, shortly after the country's independence, Igbo Christians living in the Muslim north had been persecuted by the Hausa.
The latest news in nigeria today for the violence had resulted in 1967 secession of Biafra, a deprived area of southeastern majority of Igbo populous country. After three years of war and the death of a million people, many from disease and famine, Biafra had finally capitulated and returned to Nigeria. Since then, the separatists IPOB continue to campaign for the secession of Biafra.
This month, Nigerian secret services accused them of having kidnapped and killed 55 farmers and Hausa Fulani, two predominantly Muslim ethnic groups, mainly present in northern Nigeria.
The Nigerian Department of State Services (DSS), who said he found the bodies summarily buried in a forest in the southeast of the country, bastion of IPOB.
Since the war in Biafra, Igbo often say they feel marginalized by the federal government, which takes them out of key positions and depriving them of major infrastructure projects in their area.
President Muhammadu Buhari, himself a Muslim Fulani adopts vis-a-vis the IPOB which only fuels this strong sense of injustice in the first African economy.
While growth is at its lowest level for over ten years and inflation and fuel shortages create a ras-le-bol, the alleged attacks by Fulani in the southeast let fear new ethnic tensions and the rise of separatist aspirations.
'Bloody rehearsal' -
Latest news in nigeria Violence to defend grazing rights between Fulani herdsmen, Muslim nomads who travel with their herds, farmers and Christians are commonplace in central Nigeria.
But earlier this week, southeast, in Enugu State, in the heart of the Igbo country, seven farmers in this ethnic group were killed by Fulani herders, police said.
How long should we stay silent? "Indignant Prince Emmanuel Kanu the demonstrations for his release and Aba Owerri, in the southeast, had to stop because of "repeated murders" committed by security forces, according to Prince Emmanuel Kanu.
According to the lawyer of Human Rights Onkere Nnamdi Kingdom, more than 50 protesters were killed by police and army between October and February.
Radicalization risks
The detention of Mr. Kanu and the fate of his supporters echo the case of Ibrahim Zakzaky, the head of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), imprisoned since clashes between its Shiites and the army in December.
According to latest news in nigeia Buhari, elected last year, won several victories against the Islamist Boko Haram, whose violence has claimed more than 20,000 lives since 2009. But the former military ruler tends to apply force for requesting records more diplomacy, says Nnamdi Obasi, Nigeria specialist at the International Crisis Group.
"The prolonged detention of Mr. Kanu has not the intended purpose, if the goal was to stifle the unrest," he thinks, warning: "This muscular response is not at all necessary and may lead to radicalization "of IPOB.
