In the first in a series on Africa’s most populous state, we look at the effects of widening violence, poverty, crime and corruption as elections approach
A series of overlapping security, political and economic crises has left Nigeria facing its worst instability since the end of the Biafran war in 1970.
With experts warning that large parts of the country are in effect becoming ungovernable, fears that the conflicts in Africa’s most populous state were bleeding over its borders were underlined last week by claims that armed Igbo secessionists in the country’s south-east were now cooperating with militants fighting for an independent state in the anglophone region of neighbouring Cameroon.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/25/failed-state-why-nigerias-fragile-democracy-is-facing-an-uncertain-future
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