Tag: Fulani herdsmen

Kaduna villages’ death toll rises to 150, including pastor’s wife and three children

March 24, 2014 Nigeria ECWA, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna

The death toll following a massacre across three villages in central Nigeria a week ago has risen beyond 150, according to the deputy Chairman of the Kaura Local Government Area in Southern Kaduna. Suspected Fulani herdsmen raided three mainly Christian villages Ugwar Sankwai, Ungwan Gata and Chenshyi (known also as . . . Read More

Nigeria attacks kill more than 150

March 17, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, West Africa

Attacks in Kaduna state, Nigeria, on March 14 left more than 114 people dead and many houses burned.World Watch Monitor More than 150 people have been killed since Friday in central and northern Nigeria in separate attacks on villages populated by a concentration of Christians. On Friday, March 14, . . . Read More

Dozens dead as violence continues in central Nigeria

February 26, 2014 Nigeria Berom, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Niger Delta, Plateau

Tribal attacks have claimed many lives in central Nigeria in recent months. In November, around 40 members of the Berom community were killed and buried in mass graves.World Watch Monitor At least 43 people have died in two separate attacks as sectarian violence continues in central Nigeria’s Plateau state. . . . Read More

Nigeria’s deadly winter

February 14, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, West Africa

Attackers stormed this Catholic church during mass, blocked the main door, detonated homemade bombs, and opened fire.Twitter / @ChristianPost The new year has begun in exceptionally violent fashion in north-eastern Nigeria, prompting Christian organisations to renew their pleas for better government security. Boko Haram, the militant group that wants . . . Read More

30 killed in Plateau State violence

January 9, 2014 Nigeria Berom, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria, Plateau

Around 30 people were killed and 25 others injured on Jan. 7 during an attack in Plateau state, in central Nigeria. More than 40 houses were burnt down during the attack, which local media blamed on Fulani herdsmen. Much of the violence is blamed on land disputes between mainly Muslim . . . Read More

Dozens killed in fresh attacks in central Nigeria

November 29, 2013 Nigeria Berom, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Church of Christ in Nigeria, ECWA, Fulani herdsmen, Plateau

Mass burials took place on Tuesday.World Watch Monitor About 40 people were killed in coordinated attacks on Monday night in four Christian-dominated villages in the central Nigerian State of Plateau. Local sources contacted by World Watch Monitor report that the assailants, believed to be members of the Fulani tribe, . . . Read More

Violence locks down Nigerian town

September 24, 2013 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Nigeria

The largely Christian Nigerian town of Kafanchan is under 24-hour curfew after an outburst of violence Friday that left 10 people dead. News reports vary on the details of the violence, but generally agree that it involved two groups of youths – those indigenous to southern Kaduna state and those . . . Read More

Christian woman killed in Nigeria’s Kaduna state

December 20, 2011 Nigeria ECWA, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Nigeria

A Muslim villager in Kaduna state allegedly helped Fulani herdsmen and other Muslims from nearby Kafanchan to ambush a Christian settlement, resulting in the death of one woman and gunshot wounds to two other Christians on Dec. 10, area sources said. Musa Blak, 60, told World Watch Monitor how gunmen . . . Read More

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