Nigeria's Deadly Battle for Land: Herdsmen vs. Farmers
- Aug 12, 2016
- 1 min read
Farms have been built on ancient routes of a semi-nomadic community in Nigeria, causing violence that has already claimed hundreds of lives this year.
Cradling her baby son, Benjamin, Joy Abuh stares intently when she talks about the moment her life changed forever.
"The herdsmen shot my husband as he was riding his motorbike," she told me matter-of-factly. "They then used a machete to hack him to death."
She says his body was found in the bush several days later.
It was so badly decomposed that villagers buried it before Mrs Abuh had the chance to see her husband for the last time.
Locals in Agatu district in Nigeria's central Benue state say Fulani herdsmen killed dozens of people during a string of attacks this spring.
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