Lagos Slum Was Razed for Its Waterfront, Residents Say

LAGOS, Nigeria — Dazed and wearing a blood-spattered undershirt, Blessing Dacodonu sat on the floor of a clinic propped above a murky lagoon, wondering where his brother was. The men had been walking past a demolished slum on their morning commute when a mob wielding machetes attacked them, making them the latest casualties in a scramble for land in…

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