Tag: Benue

Agatu: over 10 villages still under Fulani siege

April 6, 2016 Nigeria Agatu, Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Nasarawa, Nigeria

Nearly two months after the invasion of Agatu by Fulani herdsmen, more than 10 villages are still under siege by rampaging Fulani insurgents, according to Chief Elias Ekoyi Obekpa, traditional ruler of the Idoma tribe in Benue State, Nigeria. Several days of attacks in February’s final days killed hundreds of . . . Read More

Village massacres strain Nigeria further, as traditional nomads fight modernisation

March 23, 2016 Nigeria Agatu, Benue, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Katsina, West Africa

The aftermath of an attack, which claimed hundreds of lives, in the central Nigerian state of Benue, Feb. 2016.World Watch Monitor In the rural village of Agatu, in north central Nigeria, someone had successfully installed a solar panel in his home before the arsonists lit their fires. It was . . . Read More

At least 15 dead in fresh attack in Benue

March 18, 2016 Nigeria Agatu, Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria

At least 15 people are feared killed in a fresh attack attributed to suspected Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria’s central Benue state. On 17 March, unidentified armed men stormed Tombo, in Buruku, killing residents, setting fire to properties and then taking over the deserted villages, an eye-witness told Nigeria’s Vanguard Media. . . . Read More

UPDATE: Hundreds killed in Nigeria attacks

March 11, 2016 Nigeria Abuja, Agatu, Benue, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

On the night of Feb 21, at least 500 people were killed in the mainly Christian area of Agatu in the central Benue state of Nigeria. That’s according to local sources, although the figure could rise even higher – due to continuing violence and the fact that locals and relief . . . Read More

Boko Haram headlines hide persecution of Christians in mid-Nigeria, too

March 20, 2015 Nigeria Adamawa, Benue, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Jos, Kaduna, Middle Belt, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Plateau, Sharia, Taraba, Zamfara

The whole world has heard of the Chibok abduction: the 276 girls, predominantly Christians, kidnapped by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria in April 2014. There are 220 still missing. But the publicity surrounding this serves to hide a more widespread persecution of Christians in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria. Nigeria . . . Read More

Gunmen kill 100 Christian villagers in central Nigeria

March 19, 2015 Nigeria Benue, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Middle Belt, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

While all eyes are on Nigeria’s north-eastern regions where the radical group Boko Haram is at last being challenged by multi-national military forces, violence targeting Christian communities in the group of states across the centre of Nigeria, known as the Middle Belt, has increased dramatically. This comes ahead of Presidential . . . Read More

20 Nigerian churches destroyed during violent March

March 31, 2014 Nigeria Benue, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen

More than 20 churches have been destroyed by Fulani herdsmen during attacks on communities in Benue State, Nigeria. The attacks in Nigeria’s “Middle Belt” started early in March but resumed March 23 in the town of Gbajimba, in the Guma Local Government Area. The attacks have claimed more than 100 . . . Read More

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