Up to a hundred people may have died in the violence that rocked parts of northern Nigeria on 18 February following the publication in Europe of cartoons satirising the prophet Mohammed. Sources in northern Nigeria report that at least 30 churches and 250 shops and houses were destroyed in Borno State, when a peaceful protest in the capital city Maiduguri turned violent and a crowd armed with sticks, machetes and iron bars rampaged through the town destroying Christian properties and targeting members of the clergy. Father Gajere, priest of St. Rita’s Catholic Church was burned to death in his home...