23rd November
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2002 Riots In Nigeria, Miss World Pageant Moved To London

Muslim youths rioted, leaving 100 dead and 500 injured in the city of Kaduna.

The Miss World event was scheduled to be held at the Nigerian capital, Abuja, in December.

One of the main problems seems to be that the pageant was to be held during the holy month of Ramadan.

Riots were then sparked when a writer in the Nigerian newspaper ThisDay made blasphemous comments linking the Prophet Mohammed to the pageant.

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Earlier in the year, in Nigeria, a 31 year old woman was sentenced to be stoned to death after she had a child out of wedlock after she had been raped.

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1996 Ethiopian Airlines Hijacked Jet Crashes Into Indian Ocean

The jet came down after running out of fuel.

100 were killed but there were over 50 survivors. The jet broke up (into 3 sections) during an emergency landing close to a holiday beach on the Comoro Islands.

Three men had hijacked the jet which was flying from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.

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