A whole lot of individuals have been killed and injured in assaults by armed teams.
The Nigerian authorities says a minimum of 160 individuals had been killed in assaults by armed teams on distant farming communities on the weekend.
It’s the worst violence within the central Plateau state in additional than 5 years.
No group has claimed accountability however nomadic herders are believed to be accountable.
Herders and farmers have been locked in a decades-long battle over entry to land and water.
Why has the Nigerian authorities failed to forestall these assaults?
And what does it imply for the nation’s wider safety drawback – because it faces challenges on a number of fronts?
Presenter: Laura Kyle
Friends:
Isa Sanusi – Nigeria nation director at Amnesty Worldwide and a former journalist
Chris Kwaja – Affiliate professor at Centre for Peace and Safety Research at Nigeria’s Modibbo Adama College and nation director for USIP – america Institute of Peace
Musa Ashoms – Commissioner of Data and Communication for the Plateau state authorities in Nigeria
