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Muslims still on rampage in Kano
As Muslim prayers ended today in Kano, Nigeria, more violence erupted in the city that officials thought they had largely under control. Andrew Ubah, the head of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Kano, now estimates that 1,000 people have been killed in the last few days. Others agree that his earlier estimate of "almost 600" may have been too low.

"On Wednesday evening they brought in two trailer loads of bodies," an anonymous medical worker told Reuters today. "There was one trailer load the previous day. A lot of people were killed. I think it is even more than 600."

Fighting has also continued between Yakubu Pam, chairman of the Plateau State branch of CAN, and President Olusegun Obasanjo. Pam told the BBC that after yesterday's confrontation, presidential security agents questioned him for "several hours," and demanded he apologize for suggesting that Obasanjo hadn't given enough attention to earlier violence against Christians in the city. Pam says he's still thinking about it.

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Nigeria bans broadcast miracles:

• Miracle broadcast: NBC begins clamp down | National Broadcasting Commission said yesterday, it would begin clamp down on any radio or television station, which broadcasts unverifiable claims of miracles from Christian Tele-evangelists (This Day, Lagos, Nigeria)
  
  
• Ban on miracle broadcast: NBC got PFN's support —acting DG | The Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has said it got the support of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, and professional broadcasters across the country before it embarked on practical steps towards sanitizing the nation's airwaves even as the body refuted media reports that it has placed a blanket ban on the broadcast of religious programmes in the electronic media (Vanguard, Lagos, Nigeria)
  
  

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Shari'ah:

• Nigerian state okays new alcohol penalties | Lawmakers in a mostly Islamic Nigerian state have approved a law calling for Muslims to be whipped and Christians to be jailed if they are caught drinking alcohol, officials said Saturday (Associated Press)
  
  
• Christians leave Nigerian city as riot rages | Christians chased out of their homes by Muslims during bloody riots in Nigeria's northern city of Kano boarded buses to leave town as fresh clashes broke out Friday (Reuters)
  
  
• Kano Assembly passes law on Sharia | Under the new law any Christian found consuming alcoholic drinks would be liable to one year imprisonment or an option of N50,000.00 fine or both while any Muslim caught for the same offence would be subjected to 80 lashes (Vanguard, Nigeria)
  
  

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Zimbabwe refuses food aid:

• Bishop slams Zimbabwe food claims | One of Zimbabwe's top churchmen has criticized the government for refusing international food aid, saying the country will be left hungry (BBC)
  
  

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