Nigeria: More than 2,000 displaced in eastern Nigeria by further religious clashes

Clashes between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria’s eastern Adamawa state at the beginning of June displaced at least 2,000 people when their homes were burned to the ground, and killed more than 40, the Nigerian Red Cross told the BBC. The fighting in the predominantly Christian town of Numan was prompted by a long-standing dispute over the reconstruction of a mosque which had been destroyed in earlier communal violence.