Nigeria: Nigeria’s Farmers and Herders Fight a Deadly Battle for Scarce Resources

Jun 25, 2018 | Emmanuel Akinwotu, New York Times
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Clashes between armed herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria are escalating to increasingly violent episodes as a battle for scarce resources stirs long-held tensions over religion and ethnicity. By some estimates the clashes have taken more than 500 lives this year.