2023-05-17 03:10:09
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Clashes between herders and farmers in central Nigeria left more than 30 people dead on Tuesday. On the same day, in the southeast of the country, gunmen attacked an American convoy, killing four non-Americans and kidnapping three others.
More than 30 people have been killed in Nigeria in clashes between farmers and herders in villages in Plateau state.
“The incident affected more than 30 people. They lost their lives,” Dan Manjang, Information and Communication Commissioner of this central Nigerian state, said on Tuesday May 16. The clashes opposed “herders and farmers”, he said.
The northwestern and central regions of Nigeria are regularly the scene of conflicts and tensions around the exploitation of land and water resources.
Tuesday’s clashes took place “in several villages” in Mangu district, police said. “At approximately 11:56 a.m. (1056 GMT) we received an emergency call ‘reporting gunmen’ firing sporadically,” police spokesman Alfred Alabo said in a statement. communicated. Security forces were deployed to the scene and confronted the troublemakers, the statement said.
The chain of killings followed by acts of reprisal has given rise to wider criminality in the region with gangs carrying out targeted expeditions into villages, carrying out mass kidnappings and looting.
An American convoy attacked
“As we speak, the culprits are on the run and our officers are in pursuit with the objective of ensuring that they are neutralized and, if possible, arrested,” Alabo said. The chairman of Mangu district has imposed a 24-hour curfew to prevent the unrest from spreading to other areas.
On the same day, in southeastern Nigeria, armed men attacked an American convoy, killing four non-Americans and kidnapping three others, we learned from concordant official sources.
The violence is one of many security challenges facing President-elect Bola Tinubu when he takes over as leader of Africa’s most populous country later in May. Nigeria’s military must fight jihadists in the northeast and deal with separatist tensions in the southeast of the country.
With AFP
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