Thousands of troops in Nigeria's riot city

Nigeria sent more troops to the troubled city of Jos as clashes between Muslim and Christian mobs, that have left about 300 people dead, spread to new districts.Vice President Goodluck Jonathan ordered extra soldiers to Jos late Tuesday to clamp down on the violence as authorities enforced a 24-hour curfew.The unrest erupted on Sunday over plans to build a mosque in a mainly Christian district of the city, which has riven by sectarian tensions for many years.

A global rights watchdog on Wednesday urged Nigerian security forces to use restraint as authorities ordered more troops into Jos city to clamp down on clashes that have killed nearly 300 people.Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan late Tuesday sent more troops to Jos after sectarian Muslim and Christian mobs clashed for three days."Nigeria should ensure that its security forces use restraint and comply with international standards on the use of force in responding to the latest deadly outbreak of inter-communal violence," said Human Rights Watch (HRW).

YANGON, Burma — Burma’s government warned Monday that religious violence could threaten democratic reforms after anti-Muslim mobs rampaged through three more towns in the country’s predominantly Buddhist heartland. The mobs destroyed mosques and burned dozens of homes over the weekend despite attempts by the government to stem the nation’s latest outbreak of sectarian violence.

Authorities slapped a 24-hour curfew on the Nigerian flashpoint city of Jos on Tuesday after deadly clashes between Christians and Muslims, a state spokesman told AFP."The government has placed a 24-hour curfew on Jos and Bukuru (a small town on the fringes of Jos) following the resumption of violence in parts of the city," Plateau State Information commissioner Gregory Yenlong said.Weekend clashes in the city left at least 26 people dead, hundreds wounded and thousands homeless.

Egypt’s president declared on Sunday a 30-day state of emergency and night curfew in the three Suez Canal provinces hit hardest by the wave of violence that has left more than 50 dead in three days. Angry and almost screaming, Mohammed Morsi vowed in a televised address that he would not hesitate to take even more action to stem the latest eruption of violence across much of the country. But at the same time, he sought to reassure Egyptians that his latest moves would not plunge the country back into authoritarianism.

Clashes left at least one person dead and a number of houses burned in the Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday amid tensions following a series of Christmas Eve bomb attacks that killed dozens.Soldiers patrolled the streets of the central Nigerian city and authorities sought to keep the violence from further spreading after Friday's bombs that claimed at least 32 lives.Previous outbreaks of violence between Christian and Muslim ethnic groups have killed hundreds, and the bombs added a worrying new dimension to the unrest ahead of April elections.

Interactive graphic on unrest in Nigeria as the government sends more troops to the troubled city of Jos where clashes between Muslim and Christian mobs have left about 300 people dead.

Frightened residents flooded a military checkpoint to flee the Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday after Muslim-Christian clashes that killed some 450 people and left scores of buildings burnt.While the fighting has subsided in the central city and troops have been deployed to end the unrest, fleeing residents said they remained too frightened to stay.At a military checkpoint on the outskirts of Jos, where long queues of cars and buses carrying fleeing residents formed, soldiers searched all vehicles, an AFP reporter saw. Several vehicles were laden with baggage.