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March 9, 2012

Nigeria Is Becoming Africa's Pakistan

Rob Crilly, Daily Telegraph

AP Photo

Africa's religious divide is visible from space. Satellite images show the browns and burnt yellows of the arid north giving way to tropical greens as the view moves from north to south.

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TAGGED: Africa, Nigeria, Islam, Christianity, Boko Haram

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