Churches burned, fields destroyed and families slaughtered... the Nigerian Christians brutalised by jihadists

This stretch of Nigeria's Middle Belt - the faultline where the largely Muslim north meets the predominantly Christian south - has convulsed in recurring waves of bloodshed.


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