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Jos, Mumbai and Al Qaeda

This is a guest post by Michelle Sieff, Assistant Director of the American Jewish Committee’s Africa Institute.

Mumbai was not the only bleeding city last week. In Jos, Nigeria, located in the heart of what is called the “middle belt”, violence between Christian and Muslim mobs protesting what they said were rigged local elections resulted in 400 people dead and 7,000 more displaced.

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