A group seeking a separate homeland for the ethnic Igbo people of Nigeria’s southeast demanded ‘justice and fair hearing’ on Wednesday after their leader Nnamdi Kanu was detained. The head of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was arrested and brought back to Nigeria to face trial, the authorities announced Tuesday. The 53-year-old had jumped […]
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Southeast Nigeria streets empty for Biafra remembrance
Streets in southeast Nigeria were deserted on Monday as the former separatist region commemorated the more than one million people who died in the Biafra war and famine half a century ago. Markets and roads were empty in the major cities of Aba, Owerri and Akwa, at the heart of former “Republic of Biafra”, in […]