Tag: Fulani herdsmen

What is behind the Fulani herdsmen-farmers conflict?

August 9, 2018 Nigeria Agatu, Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Middle Belt, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau

The ongoing deadly clashes between the nomadic, mainly Muslim Fulani herdsmen and the predominantly Christian farming communities of Nigeria’s Middle Belt are often referred to in the mainstream media as “farmer-herder clashes”: the Middle Belt is a farming region, and the advancing Fulani-owned herds have increasingly encroached on croplands. However, . . . Read More

Buhari does not stop Fulani because they are his ‘kith and kin’ – Christian Association of Nigeria

August 2, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Christian Association of Nigeria, Dapchi, Fulani herdsmen, Leah Sharibu, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership is more divided than at any time in the country’s history, the Christian Association of Nigeria’s Adamawa State chapter has declared in a letter sent to him yesterday (1 August). Condemning the “mindless massacre” of the predominantly Christian farming communities by Fulani herdsmen, CAN . . . Read More

Nigeria: herders’ attacks completely decimate villages in ‘scorched earth’ campaigns

July 27, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Fulani herdsmen, Middle Belt, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau, Yobe

Catholics protest in Kaduna state on 22 May, 2018.

In Nigeria, conflict between farmers and herders has become the country’s gravest security challenge, claiming six times more lives than the Boko Haram insurgency, the International Crisis Group (ICG) says in a report published yesterday. The report, ‘Stopping Nigeria’s Spiralling Farmer-Herder Conflict’, says that more than 1,300 people were killed . . . Read More

Archbishop of Canterbury raises profile of Nigeria attacks as new humanitarian crisis looms

July 19, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Benue, Berom, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kogi, Muhammadu Buhari, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Plateau, Sahel, Taraba, West Africa

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has challenged the British government on how much it is doing to help end violent attacks on Christians in Nigeria. His comments, made in a House of Lords debate on Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram on Tuesday (17 July), follow the publication of a . . . Read More

Buhari renews pledge to protect Nigerians as killings continue

July 6, 2018 Nigeria Abuja, Benue, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau, Zamfara

The Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to end the killings in the restive regions of the Middle Belt, amidst growing pressure to deal with the situation. A spate of attacks over three days – from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 June – left more than 200 dead in 11 . . . Read More

Nigerian government ‘not doing enough’ to protect citizens – Amnesty

June 29, 2018 Nigeria Abuja, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Zamfara

Amnesty International has accused the Nigerian government of not doing enough to curb the violence that has claimed more than 1,800 lives so far this year. By failing to hold murderers to account, Nigerian authorities are encouraging impunity that is fuelling rising insecurity across the country, said Amnesty in a . . . Read More

Nigerian Christians refute claims herdsmen killings were retaliatory, as Plateau violence reaches new peak

June 28, 2018 Nigeria APC, Berom, Christian Association of Nigeria, Church of Christ in Nigeria, ECWA, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Jos, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau

In central Nigeria, clashes between predominantly Christian farmers and mainly Muslim Fulani herdsmen reached another peak in Plateau over the weekend, as suspected herdsmen went on a killing spree in a dozen villages, leaving scores dead. Early reports suggested that 86 people were killed, but local sources contacted by World . . . Read More

What does conviction of five Christian youths to hang for death of one Fulani herder show about the farmer–herdsmen conflict in N. Nigeria?

June 25, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Enugu, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria, Yola

Five Christian youths were recently sentenced to death by hanging for killing a Fulani herder, himself alleged to have killed 48 people. The five are from Adamawa state in north-east Nigeria, one of the three states most severely hit by the Boko Haram insurgency. Many fled Boko Haram, only to . . . Read More

‘Why have killers of Christians been set free?’ – Christian Association of Nigeria

June 25, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Christian Association of Nigeria, Enugu, Eunice Elisha, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Yola

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene after five Christian youths were sentenced to death in the north-eastern state of Adamawa, warning of a “miscarriage of justice” and bemoaning a lack of consistency in bringing killers to justice. On 11 June, a judge . . . Read More

‘Fulani herdsmen attacks have caused $1 billion damage in just one Nigerian state’

June 13, 2018 Nigeria Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Attacks attributed to Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria’s central state of Benue have caused damage to properties worth the equivalent of over one billion US dollars (400 billion nairas), says the state governor. Samuel Ortom told a local radio station the estimate was based on preliminary findings into attacks in the . . . Read More

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