Abuja, Aug 13, 2025 (AFP) - Army, armed groups killing thousands in southeast Nigeria: Amnesty

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2025-08-13

Thousands of people have been killed and hundreds "arbitrarily detained" by security forces and armed groups in southeast Nigeria since a crackdown on a regional independence movement a decade ago, Amnesty International said Wednesday. Autonomy remains a hot-button issue in the oil-rich region more than five decades after a brutal civil war put an end to the breakaway republic of Biafra in the 1960s. Though the region is considered far less res......

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