18 December 2018

Nigeria: Spike in farmer-herder violence in the Middle Belt

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There is a risk that the tense political climate during the pre-election period will worsen ongoing intercommunal tensions in Nigeria’s Middle Belt between farming and herder communities, who are largely dissatisfied with the federal and state governments’ responses to the farmer-herder violence in 2018. 

Conflict and violence