Nnamdi Kanu's Pro-Independence Movement Plans to Open More Biafran Embassies

Biafran activist Nnamdi Kanu attends his trial in Abuja, Nigeria, February 9. Kanu's movement, the Indigenous People of Biafra, says it plans to add more embassies to the one it set up in Spain in 2015.
The Biafran movement headed up by Nnamdi Kanu says it plans to establish more embassies in various countries in 2016.
Biafran independence has become a live issue in Nigeria since Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was detained by Nigerian security forces in October 2015. Thousands of people have demonstrated across southeast Nigeria since then, demanding the release of Kanu—who is based in the U.K. and directs underground media outlet Radio Biafra—and calling for independence for Biafra, a region in southeast Nigeria that existed as an independent republic between 1967 and 1970.