Nearly 100 Believed Killed in Oil City
From Times Wire Reports
Nearly 100 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured in ethnic warfare that has rocked the southern Nigerian oil city of Warri in the last week, the Nigerian Red Cross said.
The clashes between the Ijaw and Itsekiri groups are rooted in disputes over oil wealth and political power.
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