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Nigeria shaken by two bloody massacres
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More 50 fifty people were killed in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Bama on May 7. The army suspects the attacks were carried out by Islamist militants Boko Haram.
Around 200 heavily-armed assailants stormed an army barracks, a police station and a jail, freeing more than 100 prisoners.
In a separate incident on May 9, more than 40 police officers were killed in an ambush in the central state of Nassarawa. The governor believes a local gang could be behind the attack.
Human rights groups suggest that tribal loyalties are at the root of Nigeria’s lack of stability.
Lawyer and human rights activist Ememanka Onyebuchi said: “People are more inclined to identify with their tribal blocks than with the country as a whole, and that is one of the tragedies of this nation.”
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan cut short a trip abroad on May 9 – to return home in the wake of this week’s violence.
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More legal woes for Berlusconi as prosecutors demand bribery trial
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Silvio Berlusconi’s legal woes show no sign of subsiding, a day after his conviction for tax fraud was upheld.
Prosecutors in Naples have called for Italy’s ex-prime minister to face another trial on charges of bribing a former senator.
They accuse him of having paid Sergio De Gregorio three million euros to defect from his small party in 2006 and join the centre-right. A judge must decide first whether there is a case to answer.
Leaders of Berlusconi’s People of Freedom (PdL) party – a key partner in the coalition government – have been meeting to consider their next moves. They have repeated accusations that judges are politically motivated.
“It’s a politicised judiciary, which practises politics, which wants to destroy politics of a certain orientation, so to speak. That’s blindingly obvious,” said Renato Brunetta from the PdL.
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Nigeria : Militants killed 46 police officers in an ambush
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According to local police, Nigerian militants have killed 46 police officers in an ambush in the north central state of Nassarawa.
It has not been confirmed if the attacks were linked to Islamist sect Boko Haram, as Islamist groups usually operate further north than Nassarawa.
“Forty-six police officers were killed about 10 km from Lafia by members of a militia who had ambushed them on their way to an operation to arrest the leader of the militia group,” police spokesman Sergie Ezegam said.
Boko Haram and offshoots such as the al Qaeda-linked group Ansaru, as well as associated criminal networks, are the main threat to stability in Africa’s top energy producer.
Usually, Boko Haram’s attacks occur in its northeast stronghold, possibly indicating that its reach has grown in the last year. Ansaru’s attacks include a siege on a police barracks in the capital Abuja and violence further south.
Ansaru also claimed responsibility for a January attack in the Kogi state on a convoy of Nigerian soldiers en route to deployment with West African forces in Mali. Kogi is south of Abuja and borders Nassarawa.
The situation in Nigeria causes huge concern for western governments becuase Nigerian militants are joining with other jihadist groups in West Africa.
Boko Haram want to carve out an Islamic state in a country split roughly equally between Christians and Muslims.
Since 2009, attacks by Boko Haram have killed more than 3,000 people, based on figures from Human Rights Watch.
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