| 5,687,719 |
11.11324 |
7.72518 |
Nigeria |
|
In Zaria and Sabon Gari neighborhoods with large Christian populations, mobs of CPC supporters, chanting political slogans, set fire to churches and burned and looted Christian property. A Human Rights Watch researcher met a group of Christians inside a burned-out church in Zaria. The pastor said the April 18, 2011 attack was the third time mobs had burned the Nasara Baptist Church. |
| 5,687,723 |
9.78333 |
8.28333 |
Nigeria |
|
Christian leaders allege that Hausa-Fulani in Zonkwa started the violence and burned a hotel owned by a retired military officer. |
| 5,687,727 |
12.00012 |
8.51672 |
Nigeria |
|
Due to ongoing rioting, an unspecified number of people were killed when homes and shops were attacked. Rioters fought with soldiers in Kano. A mob used wooden planks to beat two people who appeared to be Christians based on their dress. Red Cross confirms at least six dead. |
| 5,687,730 |
12.98943 |
7.60063 |
Nigeria |
|
Ongoing rioting in Katsina in response to electoral outcome. Red Cross confirms at least eight dead. |
| 5,687,734 |
9.41667 |
5.86667 |
Nigeria |
|
Post-election violence erupted in the Mararaba area of Nasarawa State, which shares borders with some satellite towns of the FCT. Irate youths protesting the defeat of their presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, barricaded the major road and unleashed violence on motorists and other road users. |
| 5,687,737 |
9.92849 |
8.89212 |
Nigeria |
|
Riots and protests spread to the tense central Nigerian city of Jos, hit by years of deadly clashes between Christian and Muslim ethnic groups. No specification of casualties. |
| 5,687,740 |
11.7091 |
11.0694 |
Nigeria |
|
In the town of Potiskum in Yobe state, a resident reported that a mob sought to pin down a Christian woman and burn her with a tyre, but residents put the fire out and took her to hospital. |
| 5,687,745 |
10.26912 |
7.10845 |
Nigeria |
|
On the morning of April 18, mobs of Christians, many of them from outside Maraban Rido, attacked Muslim residents in the town, according to Muslim witnesses. In a memorandum submitted to the state commission of inquiry, Muslim community leaders listed the names of 40 Muslims killed in Maraban Rido and stated that about 400 houses, 6 mosques, and 8 Islamic schools were burned. |
| 5,687,750 |
10.52224 |
7.43828 |
Nigeria |
|
Beginning on the evening of April 18 and continuing into the day on April 19, mobs in southern Kaduna State killed hundreds of Muslims and ethnically cleansed entire towns and villages of their Muslim populations, including Zonkwa, Matsirga, and Gidan Maga. The federal panel concluded that 827 people died in Kaduna State over the course of all violence. Fatalities divided amongst the all Kaduna events events occuring during these two days. |
| 5,687,756 |
10.4567 |
7.51194 |
Nigeria |
|
A mosque burned by CPC mobs on April 18, 2011 in Maraban Rido, Kaduna State. Muslim leaders said 40 Muslims were killed in the town. |
