02/21/2021
Nigeria
(International Christian Concern) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked and killed four Christians during an ambush on Sunday, February 14
th, in north-central Nigeria.
“Irigwe nation has again been thrown into the state of grief, heart-brokenness following the unwarranted killing of four of our Christian men by the Fulani herdsmen at two villages of Kwall District, Bassa LGA of Plateau state,” said David Mali, spokesman for the Irigwe Development Association,“Four of them from Rikwe-Chongu village were ambushed along Ri-Bakwa axis near Kpachudu, and three were killed instantly while one sustained gunshot injury. The other one from Zirshe (Ntireku) was ambushed and killed instantly.”
02/15/2021
Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen killed three farmers Saturday night in the Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State, according to Sahara Reporters.
“Yes, it’s true, three people were killed, the place is becoming like Zamfara…” said senior special assistant to the Governor on agriculture, Akin Olotu, “It’s obvious these bandits are ready for war.”
The attack comes in the wake of several massacres Jihadist Fulani have committed just this month, adding onto the decades of violence Christian farmers have suffered at the hands of killer herdsmen. While the media continues to portray such violence as back-and-forth exchanges between herders and farmers with no real religious motives, researchers are increasingly revealing an extremist agenda.
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02/05/2021 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – When he took office in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria promised to end the violence plaguing the nation. In his inauguration address, he promised to fight the Islamist terror group Boko Haram, rescue hostages out of the group’s hands, and crush what he called “the most immediate threat” to Nigeria.
Buhari’s speech also included an offhanded reference to the violence in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region where, since his speech, militant Fulani extremists have killed many thousands of civilians and government personnel. In fact, ICC analysis of the violence in Nigeria shows that the majority of civilian and government deaths in 2020 happened at the hands of Fulani militants rather than Boko Haram terrorists. Despite this fact, the government of Nigeria continues to largely ignore the Fulani crisis in favor of the more easily-defined terro