FEATURE-Nigeria's farmers trapped in crosshairs of rising bandit attacks
* Farmers' livelihoods hollowed out by gunmen * Bandits demand protection money, kidnap ransoms * Rising food prices fuel cost-of-living crisis Nigerian farmer Bashir Sanni and his neighbors hoped they could buy their safety from groups of gunmen who terrorize the country's northwest with kidnappings for ransom and extortion. Residents of his village Birnin Tudu clubbed together to pay 10 million naira ($22,550) in protection money to a local armed group - as well as buying them two motorcycles and a cellphone.
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