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April 4, 2001
   

Hundreds of Moslem fundamentalists in the north demonstrated for more power (to enforce Sharia law) and financial incentives to do so. The group vowed to fight to the death to achieve strict adherence to Sharia law. In the south, tribal violence left two dead in the Delta region.