The Date 12 December in Zaria, a historic city in Kaduna State, Nigeria, may have turned to ashes either a blood of valley.

Jessica Cox smiled as she faced about 40 of her relatives and friends, her back to her plane as it taxied behind her. The rumble of the engine and the buzz of the propeller got louder, then stopped.

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