Tag: cattle
Cattle rustling: a lifeline for Boko Haram in the Lake Chad...
In Africa, transnational cattle rustling – the forceful theft of livestock for illicit commercial gain – is increasingly linked to organised criminal and terrorist...
Herder-farmer conflict in the Sahel needs a new description: why ‘eco-violence’...
The Sahel – a 5,000km long strip of the African continent stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Red Sea – has become the...
Buhari denies cattle grazing plan is “colonisation”
Nigeria's president denied government proposals to share land to end a wave of violence over grazing rights amounted to "colonisation" of fertile...
Thirty dead in attack on cattle herders
Unidentified attackers killed more than 30 cattle herders in the Nigerian state of Adamawa, a police spokesman said.
The attack, in the Numan...
Kenya clashes over grazing leaves 10 dead in drought-hit north
A gun battle between two pastoralist communities competing for grazing killed least 10 people in northern Kenya on Sunday morning, police said,...
Nigeria land disputes fuel surge in herdsmen violence
When Sarah Adaji's husband retired as a teacher two years ago, he kept himself busy tending to their farm, hoping to provide...
Nigeria says preventing attacks by armed herdsmen a security priority
Nigeria's government has made preventing attacks by armed herdsmen a security priority in Africa's most populous country, a spokesman for the president...
Herders suffer as Nigerian army shut cattle trade to fight Boko...
A Nigerian government push to strangle the Boko Haram insurgency has shut down the cattle trade that sustained the city of Maiduguri,...
Suspected cattle rustlers kill 45 in northwest Kenya: administrator
Suspected cattle rustlers ambushed and killed at least 45 people in a village in northwest Kenya, then drove away hundreds of livestock,...
