NIGERIA: Aid agencies struggle to cope after Jos carnage

JOS Monday, December 01, 2008 (IRIN) - Aid workers say they are struggling to cope with the fallout of violent clashes between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria’s central city of Jos, which killed and wounded hundreds of people and displaced some 10,000. Preliminary police figures show that some 200 people died in the violence, triggered by local election results, but the number is thought to be higher. Health workers fear infection from dead bodies still strewn about the city, and say they...