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• Hundreds killed in Nigerian ethnic attack | Hundreds of Muslims have been killed by Christian militia in ethnic fighting in the central Nigerian town of Yelwa, a police officer says. (Reuters)
  
  
• Nigerian land fights kill 67 | Violent clashes over land ownership in Nigeria between Christians and Muslims have left at least 67 people dead, the BBC reported Tuesday. (UPI)
  
  
• Christians kill 67 Muslims in Nigeria | Heavily armed Christian militants attacked a Muslim village in Nigeria's central highlands and triggered a clash that left at least 67 people dead, a police commander said on Monday. Assistant commissioner Sotonye Wakama told reporters that he had led a team to the ethnic Hausa village of Yelwa Shendam after witnesses fleeing the area had reported an attack late Sunday by a large group of gunmen. (Hi Pakistan, Pakistan)
  
  
• Christians kill 67 Muslims in Nigerian raid | Heavily armed Christian militants attacked a Muslim village in Nigeria's central highlands and triggered a clash that left at least 67 people dead, a police commander said yesterday. (The National, Papua New Guinea)
  
  
• Christians massacre hundreds of Muslims | Hundreds of Muslims were killed by Christian militiamen in the latest outbreak of ethnic fighting, a senior police officer said Tuesday. (Reuters)
  
  
• Reprisal attack on village kills at least 67 in Nigeria | At least 67 people were killed in a communal attack in the central Nigerian state of Plateau, news reports said Tuesday. (Borneo Bulletin, Brunei Darussalam)
  
  
• Police: 80 killed in Nigerian violence | Fighters of a predominantly Christian tribe attacked a town dominated by a rival Muslim ethnic group, razing homes and mosques and killing at least 80 people, Nigerian police said Tuesday. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Nigerian Muslim leader: 300 killed | Nigeria's top Muslim leader said on Wednesday that 300 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in Sunday's attacks by Christian militia in the town of Yelwa in the central Plateau state. (Reuters)
  
  
• Nigeria's Turmoil: Even moderate Muslims fear Shariah push | Several years ago, reflecting on the Islamization of his country's northern provinces, Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka said, "The roof is already burning over our head—the prelude to war." Last week, a powerful Islamist political figure threw more fuel on a sectarian fire that threatens to engulf Africa's most populous country. (Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Muslims in Nigerian town 'massacred' | More than 200 Muslims are dead and 120 missing after Christian fighters attacked a central Nigerian town, one of Nigeria's senior Islamic leaders has said, branding the assault "mass murder". (AFP)
  
  

Sudan:

• U.S. walks out as Sudan elected to U.N. rights body | Sudan won an uncontested election Tuesday to the United Nations' main human rights watchdog, prompting the United States to walk out because of alleged ethnic cleansing in the country's Darfur region. (Reuters)
  
  
• Sudan state and rebels extend truce | The Sudan government and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) have signed an agreement extending a ceasefire agreement by a month, mediators at talks in neighbouring Kenya said on Sunday. (Independent, South Africa)
  
  

African Christianity:

• Cultural practice destroys Christianity: Bishop | The cultural practice of "resting the spirit of departed relatives" (kurova guva) is destroying Christianity, the Roman Catholic Church Bishop of Mutare, Right Reverend Alexio Churu Muchabaiwa, has said. (The Herald, Harare, Africa)
  
  

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May (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48