ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria arrested 55 members of a Biafran separatist movement on Monday during protests in the oil-rich southeast, police said.
Secessionist sentiment simmered in the region since the Biafra separatist rebellion tipped the country into a 1967-70 civil war that killed an estimated 1 million people.
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