Nigeria's president has said for the first time he thinks sympathisers of the Islamist Boko Haram group are in his government and security agencies.
Goodluck Jonathan's comments come amid a wave of violence blamed on Boko Haram which has left dozens of people dead in the north, most of them Christians.
Mr Jonathan also said the security situation was now more complex than during the civil war four decades ago.
More than one million people died in the 1967-1970 Biafran conflict.
More than 80 people have been killed in recent weeks in attacks apparently carried out by Boko Haram, adding to the more than 500 killed in the past year.
A 24-hour wave of violence apparently targeting Christian communities at the end of last week led to thousands of people, mostly southerners, fleeing parts of north-eastern Nigeria. There are also reports of northerners leaving their homes in southern areas, fearing reprisal attacks.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden", is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.
One of its factions has warned southerners, who are mostly Christian and animist, to leave the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria.
Source;bbc
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