Nigeria: Biafra separatist leader faces trial after arrest
By DW
30 June 2021 |
11:10 am
Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of a Biafran pro-independence group has been returned to Nigeria years after fleeing a trial. The spectre of full-scale civil war hangs over recent violence in the region.
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