A Labour Celebration supporter holds a placard throughout a marketing campaign rally at Adamasingba Stadium in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria.
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A Labour Celebration supporter holds a placard throughout a marketing campaign rally at Adamasingba Stadium in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria.
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LAGOS, Nigeria — Greater than 800 poll bins have been destroyed by armed gunmen, who attacked an workplace of the electoral fee in southeast Nigeria on Wednesday.
It is the most recent within the collection of assaults on the electoral fee’s places of work throughout the area, blamed on armed pro-Biafra separatists teams. Biafra was the nation separatists hoped to create however was quashed throughout Nigeria’s bloody civil battle.
In recent times, pro-Biafra militants have prompted widespread terror, attacking authorities and safety posts, and extra not too long ago, electoral places of work. It is elevating fears for whether or not the election can maintain as deliberate.
Insecurity is a large challenge in Nigeria, with a militant Islamist insurgency within the north east, banditry within the north west and an increase in kidnapping for money countrywide. Voters in Africa’s most populous nation are as a result of head to the polls on the finish of this month.
This story initially appeared in NPR’s Newscast.
