Inflammatory Laws to Be Put on Hold
From Times Wire Reports
As fighting between Christians and Muslims spreads to Nigeria’s southeast, the government and leaders from the mostly Muslim north agreed to back away from calls for Islamic law in an effort to end the bloodshed that has wracked Nigeria for a week. The informal agreement, reached by President Olusegun Obasanjo and the northern leaders in Abuja, the capital, said states that already had Islamic law, or Sharia, would stop enforcing it, and states seeking to put Sharia into effect would not adopt it for now.
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