President Muhammadu Buhari’s office says at least 45 farmers were killed in the violence between farmers and herders in central Nigeria. Nigeria’s presidency says dozens of people have been killed in violence between farmers and herders in the country’s central Nasarawa state. Local police said the violence broke out when armed Fulani herders attacked villagers from the Tiv ethnic group …
The violence in central Nigeria is now one of the country’s deadliest security threats after Boko Haram in the northeast and banditry in the northwest. “They started shooting them.” The assailants left the three babies – a three-month-old girl called Ruth and two boys, aged 18 months and two years old – wailing near the lifeless corpses of their mothers. …
