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