BREAKING: Terrorists attack Benue community via politicsngr
Although details of the attack are still sketchy, POLITICS NIGERIA learned that many residents have been killed.
Clashes in Nigeria between farmers and semi-nomadic herders have killed thousands of people in the last few years.The violence is often painted as ethnoreligious: chiefly Muslim Fulani herders clashing with mainly Christian farmers. But many analysts and politicians say climate change and expanding agriculture are creating competition for land that is pushing the farmers and herders into conflict, regardless of faith or ethnicity.
Efforts by this newspaper to reach the Benue State Command spokesperson, Catherine Anene, for comment, were unsuccessful.
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