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AFRICA-ASIA: Violence in the City

NAIROBI, 5 September 2007 (IRIN In-Depth) -


  • NIGERIA Guns, gangs, drugs feed growing delta violence


  • IRAQ Baghdad taxi drivers devise new survival tactics


  • Yves Habonimana, 25 "My legs were sore, my whole body swollen"


  • KENYA Security crisis in slum as sect and police clash


  • IRAQ Decline in municipal services boosts violence and disease


  • MOZAMBIQUE Murders point to police brutality, raising human rights concerns


  • Sect violence enters third day in capital


  • KENYA Thousands flee clashes in Nairobi slum


  • IRAQ Walls will increase violence, specialists say


  • MOZAMBIQUE Lynchings symptom of state failure


  • NIGERIA Kano residents prepare to flee ahead of elections


  • PAKISTAN Karachi violence stokes renewed ethnic tension


  • GUINEA Soldiers continue looting after president concedes to demands


  • SOMALIA More civilians abandon homes as skirmishes continue


  • OPT Gaza violence hampering aid deliveries, say humanitarian workers


  • IRAQ Baghdad Christians flee as violence against them mounts


  • NIGER Protesters target aid agencies


  • GUINEA Students demonstrate in interior


  • MOZAMBIQUE Neighbourhoods almost cleared of fallen weapons, military says


  • NIGERIA Kano residents prepare to flee ahead of elections


  • NIGERIA Security services deemed unprepared to stop election violence


  • NIGERIA As elections near democracy flounders




Theme(s): (IRIN) Conflict, (IRIN) Urban Risk

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