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As Jega, Oloja, others plan confab on nomads, farmers’ clashes Indications have emerged that Nigeria might anytime reconsider its commitment to the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) Transhumance Protocol that guarantees free movement of pastoralists in the sub-region. As a signatory, the most populous black nation is obliged not to restrict movement of […]

Five million people were displaced in eastern Africa in 2020 as Covid-19 worsened the plight of migrants and asylum seekers.

What’s new? In 2019, Nigerian authorities launched a ten-year National Livestock Transformation Plan to curtail the movement of cattle, boost livestock production and quell the country’s lethal herder-farmer conflict. But inadequate political leadership, delays, funding uncertainties and a lack of expertise could derail the project. COVID-19 has exacerbated the challenges. Why did it happen? Violence fuelled by environmental degradation and competition over land has aggravated long-running tensions in the country’s northern and central regions. A surge in bloodshed in 2018 prompted ...