Oil Region Riots Bring Strict Curfew

Troops were told to shoot curfew breakers in Nigeria’s oil industry hub of Warri after a fourth day of arson and killing blamed on ethnic rivalries brought the death toll to 10. State authorities imposed a 6 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew and troops were told to shoot anybody caught breaking it. Barely a week after taking office to end 15 years of military rule, elected President Olusegun Obasanjo said he would visit the area this week and then come up with policies to bring lasting peace. The cause of the most recent clashes is the demand by ethnic Ijaws, fighting Itsekiri rivals, for their own local government areas.