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Nigeria: Difference, if it exists, between the Yoruba language spoken in the city of Lagos and a "traditional" form of Yoruba; degree to which the difference is of importance; whether it can cause misunderstanding (2004)

29 November 2004 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Balogun v. Ashcroft

Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals.

1 July 2004 | Judicial Body: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Female genital mutilation (FGM) - Transgression of social / cultural norms - Well-founded fear of persecution - Yoruba | Countries: Nigeria - United States of America

Bénin : pratique de l'islam chez les Yoroubas, y compris le pouvoir que détient le marabout, le traitement des Yoroubas musulmans qui ont des relations sexuelles et des enfants hors mariage; information sur l'existence de la protection offerte par l'État aux Yoroubas musulmans qui ont été condamnés à mort par le marabout pour avoir enfreint la charia (mars 2004)

10 March 2004 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Benin: The practice of Islam among the Yorubas, including the powers of the "marabout" and the treatment of Muslim Yorubas who have sexual relations or children outside of marriage; whether any state protection is available to Muslim Yorubas who have been sentenced to death by the marabout for having broken Sharia law (March 2004)

10 March 2004 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Nigeria: Existence among the Yoruba of a ritual done to women to restore the virginity they would have lost prior to marriage; if so, a description and the state protection available to those who refuse to perform this ritual (February 2004)

27 February 2004 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Chronology for Yoruba in Nigeria

2004 | Publisher: Minorities at Risk Project | Document type: Chronologies of Events

Assessment for Yoruba in Nigeria

31 December 2003 | Publisher: Minorities at Risk Project | Document type: Country Reports

Benin: Tribal and traditional family marks of Yoruba living in the Republic of Benin, details on ceremony including age, meaning of marks, and consequences of refusal to be marked

21 May 2003 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Nigeria: Whether non-Yoruba can become members of the Oodua People's Congress (OPC); whether non-Yoruba are accused of or suspected by the police of being members of the OPC

22 April 2003 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

Nigeria: September 2000 riots between the Hausa-Fulani and the Yoruba; current relations between the two ethnic groups in Lagos

17 April 2003 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Query Responses

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