Nigeria Protests – level 1

30-10-2020 15:00

People in Nigeria protest against the police. This means they say that they are not happy. SARS is in Nigeria. SARS is a special police unit. It starts in 1992.

Many people say that SARS is not good. SARS is aggressive. SARS officers use very strong force.

People in Nigeria protest against SARS. A calm protest takes place on October 20th. Protesters make videos on their phones. People are sitting and singing. Some people are holding Nigerian flags.

But someone shoots a gun. Protesters make videos of soldiers. Officials say that there are no soldiers. It makes people very angry.

SARS ends in October. A new police unit starts. People worry. They do not believe that anything will change.

Difficult words: unit (a group of people who work together as a team), aggressive (when someone attacks someone else), flag (a piece of cloth that has different colors and it represents a country).

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