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Inside Nigeria's deadly faultline - where an Islamist war on Christians and the struggle for land create a brutal future: DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

Inside Nigeria's deadly faultline - where an Islamist war on Christians and the struggle for land create a brutal future: DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

I've just returned from the Plateau state in Central Nigeria. The faultline, where the country's largely Muslim north meets the country's predominantly Christian south.

Muslim Christian violence has strafed Nigeria for decades. It is a brutal conflict that has claimed thousands of lives.

I arrived and it became clear to me immediately that this conflict was still very much alive.

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