Tag: Benue

At least 15 killed as Fulani herdsmen strike again in central Nigeria

April 4, 2017 Nigeria Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Middle Belt, Nigeria

A fresh attack carried out by Fulani herdsmen has left at least 15 dead in Nigeria’s central Benue State. Many are reported missing, while several houses, huts and farmland have also been razed, as assailants targeted the predominantly Christian and farming communities, in Kwande Local Government Area, on Sunday (April 2, 2017), in . . . Read More

Nigeria: Benue death toll 60 over past 10 days, admits police chief

March 22, 2017 Nigeria Agatu, Benue, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria, West Africa

”It all started on Friday when the herdsmen forcefully entered our village to graze on farmland, but were resisted by our youths. They left – only to mobilise and storm our village in their numbers, shooting sporadically and chasing everyone from their houses.” A survivor of a recent Fulani herdsmen’s . . . Read More

Nigerian Middle Belt state: 800+ Christians killed, 800+ injured, 100+ churches destroyed

October 26, 2016 Nigeria Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Middle Belt, Nasarawa, Taraba

Nigeria’s Middle Belt is the scene of ever-continuing attacks on Christian farmers by mainly Muslim Hausa-Fulani herdsmen, including this past week where attacks have occurred in both Kaduna and Benue states. Now a recent report about another state in the Middle Belt, Nasarawa, shows that it too has been the scene . . . Read More

Nigerian Fulani herdsmen’s attacks continue amidst government inaction

October 11, 2016 Nigeria Agatu, Benue, Enugu, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

In Waku, Benue State, one of the numerous villages in Nigeria’s ‘Middle Belt’ displaced by Hausa-Fulani Muslim herdsmen, on 18 August a small frightened calf was tied to a stake by a group of Christian villagers. The angry mob was waiting for the arrival of its owners, herdsmen who’d destroyed . . . Read More

Nigerian Fulani attacks ‘kill 1,269 since 2013’

August 12, 2016 Nigeria Agatu, Benue, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Attacks by Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria’s central state of Benue have claimed at least 1,269 lives, a study by Premium Times magazine has shown. On February 21, in an attack in Agatu, for instance, one of the most serious in Nigeria in recent years – over 500 villagers were reportedly . . . Read More

UPDATE: Fresh attacks on Christian villages in Benue, Central Nigeria

July 27, 2016 Nigeria Agatu, Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Joseph Kurah

The aftermath of an attack, which claimed hundreds of lives, in the central Nigerian state of Benue, Feb. 2016.World Watch Monitor UPDATE (27 July): A fresh attack in the central Nigerian State of Benue by suspected Fulani herdsmen has left at least 14 dead in the predominantly Christian area . . . Read More

Nigeria considers giving Islamic appeals courts authority to take criminal cases

June 5, 2016 Nigeria Apostasy, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Gombe, Hudud, Islamic extremism, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Plateau, Sharia, Yobe, Zamfara

A Sharia court in northern Nigeria.Courtesy of Open Doors The situation Nigeria’s National Assembly is considering a change to the country’s constitution that would expand the scope of jurisdiction of the country’s Islamic Sharia courts of appeal. Currently, the constitution limits those appellate courts to matters concerning family law. . . . Read More

Fulani herdsmen strike again in Kaduna, Nigeria

June 1, 2016 Nigeria Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Middle Belt, Nigeria, Taraba

A predominantly Christian community in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna was attacked by suspected Muslim Fulani herdsmen on 31 May, local sources told World Watch Monitor. They said the early morning attack led to the burning of all the churches and some houses in the community. two dead, and . . . Read More

1.3 million Christians displaced in N. Nigeria

May 31, 2016 Nigeria Adamawa, Agatu, Benue, Borno, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Middle Belt, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Plateau, Sharia, Taraba, Yobe

Christians in northern Nigeria have paid a heavy price for Fulani herdshmen’s attacks and Boko Haram’s insurgency, which aims at implementing Sharia in Africa’s most populous country. An estimated 11,500 Christians were killed, over 1.3 million others were displaced and 13,000 churches destroyed or abandoned between 2006 and 2014, said . . . Read More

Nigeria: 44 dead in Taraba after ‘Fulani attack’

April 12, 2016 Nigeria Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Genocide, Nigeria, Taraba

Dozens are feared killed in fresh attacks on Monday 11 April, 2016, by suspected Fulani militants on several villages in the Gashak area of the Nigerian central state of Taraba. Local media report that at least 44 have been killed (though the exact number of casualties is yet to be . . . Read More

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