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This article surveys the security challenges faced by Nigeria: political instability, tensions between the federal government and the regions, instability in the Delta Region, environmental degradation, religious rivalry and violence. It examines Nigeria's role in regional peacekeeping and in ECOWAS and the interests of the USA, UK, China, the UN and the EU.
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