Recently a leader of Nigeria’s Jewish community, jailed for a month without charge after being arrested with three visitors from Israel, has been freed.
Authorities suspected the visitors had links with a group which had hailed their arrival in Nigeria.
Lizben Agha, from the Igbo ethnic group, was released after appeals, including from another African country.
Practising Jews form a tiny fraction of the Igbo population, one of the largest groups in multi-ethnic Nigeria.
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