A pro-Biafra leader is trying to calm ethnic tensions in Nigeria
A pro-Biafra leader is trying to calm ethnic tensions in Nigeria
Fifty years after a brutal civil war in Nigeria, the leader of a pro-Biafra group has sought to calm tensions in the West African country following a youth coalition’s call for ethnic cleansing. The Northern Youth Groups issued a statement on June 6 demanding the expulsion of members of the Igbo from northern Nigeria. The Igbo people are one of nation’s largest ethnic groups and are traditionally based in the east. The call came around the 50th anniversary of the Biafran War, when ex-Nigerian military officer C. Odumegwu Ojukwu unilaterally declared an independent Republic of Biafra in Nigeria’s southeast, which was mainly populated by Igbos who had fled persecution elsewhere in the country.
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