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January 23, 2012

178 Killed in Nigeria Raising Specter of Civil War 
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In news from Nigeria, at least 178 people died Friday in a coordinated
series of bombings and shootings in Kano, Nigeria's second largest city.
The militant Islamic group Boko Haram claimed responsibility. Earlier
this month, three of Nigeria's most famous writers—Nobel Laureate Wole
Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and J.P. Clark—released a statement warning
that the country could be descending into civil war. Nigeria's 160
million people are roughly divided between a mostly Muslim north and a
predominantly Christian south.



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