In Nigeria, Rising Insecurity Leads to Growing Separatist Calls

ABUJA - Escalating insecurity and communal violence in Nigeria appear to be strengthening separatist movements across the country. Among those movements is the Indigenous People of Biafra, a group that advocates an independent state in a part of Nigeria that tried to break away more than 50 years ago.

On a typical Sunday evening, 73-year-old former Biafran fighter Ideyi Obasi sits in front of his shanty home in a low-income housing area of Abuja and sniffs his snuff. He's grown popular in his area for often talking about his experience fighting the Biafran War in the late 1960s. He said he has renewed hope for an independent Biafra.