Nigeria: Nigeria Grazing Violence Kills Many More than Boko Haram, Poses Serious Stability Threat: Think-Tank

Jul 26, 2018 | Alexis Akwagyiram, Reuters
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Violence in Nigeria between semi-nomadic cattle herders and settled farmers has killed around six times more people than deaths related to the Boko Haram insurgency in the first half of 2018, and poses a major threat to the country’s stability, the International Crisis Group (ICG) said on Thursday. The think-tank said in a report the violence, concentrated in central states and largely driven by competition over dwindling arable land amid a rapidly growing population, killed more than 1,300 people between January and June this year.