At least 20 people, including one policeman, have been killed in riots in the Nigerian city of Jos after local elections, aid workers say.
A local journalist told the BBC that Muslim opposition supporters had gone on the rampage when they heard their candidate to head the council had lost.
This sparked unrest in the religiously divided city, with Christians burning mosques and Muslims burning churches.
A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed and the army sent to restore order.

A Nigerian crude oil pipeline was sabotaged in the Niger Delta while 22 Filipinos were arrested after their ship was intercepted for carrying stolen oil, a military spokesman said on Saturday. A crude oil pipeline that feeds into the Chevron-operated Escravos export terminal in Delta state was attacked late on Friday. No group has claimed responsibility.
“The details are still scanty and we are gathering more information,“ spokesman Rabe Abubakar said.

LAGOS (AFP) – Southern Nigeria’s main armed group MEND said Wednesday it had freed a Lebanese hostage from his kidnappers two days after his abduction.
“A commando unit from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) today, Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at about 1700 Hrs conducted a successful rescue of Mr Melad Nasari as promised, from deep inside the bush where he was confined by his abductors,” said a MEND statement.