Tag: Middle Belt

Church leader seriously injured in Fulani attack in Nigeria’s Nasarawa state

July 6, 2017 Nigeria Benue, ECWA, Fulani herdsmen, Joseph Kurah, Middle Belt, Nasarawa, West Africa

When Ibrahim Maisaje, a pastor of an ECWA (Evangelical Church Winning All) church in Panwasa Mada village, went to his farm with his family on 26 June, he was full of joy and expectation. It was mid-season, the crops had grown well and the harvest season was looking promising. But . . . Read More

Persecution ‘key driver of displacement’ says UNHCR, voicing concerns about returns

June 20, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Afghanistan, Boko Haram, Converts, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Europe, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Middle Belt, Migrants, Nigeria, Refugees, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda, UN

More people are currently displaced through conflict and persecution than at any time since the Second World War. According to the Global Trends report, published by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), 65.6 million people were forcibly displaced at the end of 2016. The report noted that the number of refugee returns . . . Read More

Deadly conflict tearing Nigeria apart (and it’s not Boko Haram)

June 15, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Middle Belt, Nigeria, West Africa

In Nigeria, it’s not only the northeast regions, stronghold of the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram, that have been the scene of severe violence. The Middle Belt of the country is also the scene of ever-continuing attacks on Christian farmers by mainly Muslim Hausa-Fulani herdsmen, as a report from IRIN . . . Read More

Nigeria: bishop blames government after 12 killed in Easter rampage

April 20, 2017 Easter, Fulani herdsmen, Kafanchan, Middle Belt

Bishop Bagobiri accused the local government of complicity with the Fulani herdsmen who have destroyed homes and livelihoods and killed more than 800 people since 2011

At least 12 worshippers were killed and many more were injured when suspected Fulani herdsmen opened fire on Easter Saturday (15 April) in a village in the Christian-dominated south of Nigeria’s Kaduna state. The local Catholic bishop, Joseph Danlami Bagobiri of Kafanchan, accused the local governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, of complicity . . . Read More

At least 15 killed as Fulani herdsmen strike again in central Nigeria

April 4, 2017 Nigeria Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Middle Belt, Nigeria

A fresh attack carried out by Fulani herdsmen has left at least 15 dead in Nigeria’s central Benue State. Many are reported missing, while several houses, huts and farmland have also been razed, as assailants targeted the predominantly Christian and farming communities, in Kwande Local Government Area, on Sunday (April 2, 2017), in . . . Read More

UPDATE: Kidnapped German archeologists freed; no ransom paid

February 27, 2017 Nigeria Abuja, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Lagos, Middle Belt, West Africa

In the village of Goska, houses were destroyed, churches burnt and shops vandalised in a December attack.World Watch Monitor UPDATE (27 Feb): Two German archaeologists kidnapped in Nigeria’s north-western state of Kaduna were freed on Saturday (25 Feb). Peter Breunig and Johannes Buringer were taken by gunmen on 22 . . . Read More

Hope for victims of the Nigerian conflict claiming more lives than Boko Haram

February 17, 2017 Nigeria Bayelsa, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Middle Belt

In the village of Goska, houses were destroyed, churches burnt and shops vandalised in a December attack.World Watch Monitor The two Nigerian villages are barely five minutes’ drive apart. In one, Goska, houses were destroyed, churches burnt, shops vandalised, carcasses of animals littered the streets and most of the . . . Read More

Kaduna deaths – Nigeria army complicit?

February 9, 2017 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Middle Belt, Nigeria

Does anyone hear? Does anyone care? The UK ‘Spectator’ reporter Douglas Murray is dismayed after visiting northern and Middle Belt Nigeria, where he found communities torn apart by a conflict that has been allowed alternately to simmer and rage, for years, without intervention. In the last couple of months the . . . Read More

Nigerian Middle Belt state: 800+ Christians killed, 800+ injured, 100+ churches destroyed

October 26, 2016 Nigeria Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Middle Belt, Nasarawa, Taraba

Nigeria’s Middle Belt is the scene of ever-continuing attacks on Christian farmers by mainly Muslim Hausa-Fulani herdsmen, including this past week where attacks have occurred in both Kaduna and Benue states. Now a recent report about another state in the Middle Belt, Nasarawa, shows that it too has been the scene . . . Read More

Fulani herdsmen strike again in Kaduna, Nigeria

June 1, 2016 Nigeria Benue, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Kafanchan, Middle Belt, Nigeria, Taraba

A predominantly Christian community in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna was attacked by suspected Muslim Fulani herdsmen on 31 May, local sources told World Watch Monitor. They said the early morning attack led to the burning of all the churches and some houses in the community. two dead, and . . . Read More

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