MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN clashes in Nigeria's central city of Jos have displaced some 20,000 people in three days and caused water and food shortages in the city, relief agencies said on Wednesday.
'The greatest challenge which we are facing now is providing food, water and medicine to the displaced people in the camps whose number has swollen to about 20,000,' Mark Lipdo, coordinator of a local aid agency Stefanus Foundation, told AFP.
Fighting between Muslim and Christian mobs ignited on Sunday over plans to build a mosque in a mainly Christian district of the city, which has been riven by sectarian tensions. The country's vice-president, Goodluck Jonathan, ordered extra troops into the city late Tuesday after terrified residents reported shooting in the streets and smoke billowing from parts of the Plateau State capital despite a 24-hour curfew.
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