{"id":1143339,"date":"2021-12-22T19:04:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T00:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1143339"},"modified":"2021-12-22T19:04:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T00:04:25","slug":"nigeria-fulani-jihadists-kill-45-christian-farmers-in-barbaric-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nigeria-fulani-jihadists-kill-45-christian-farmers-in-barbaric-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Fulani Jihadists Kill 45 Christian Farmers in &#039;Barbaric&#039; Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnigeria-fulani-jihadists-kill-45-christian-farmers-in-barbaric-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1143339&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Jihadist Fulani terrorists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/headlines\/501983-45-farmers-killed-in-latest-nasarawa-violence-presidency.html\">killed<\/a> at least 45 largely Christian Tiv farmers in central Nigeria\u2019s Nasarawa state in recent days, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari\u2019s spokesman issued a statement on his behalf on December 21 expressing the president\u2019s \u201cgrief over the heart-wrenching murder of 45 farmers and scores injured following renewed hostilities in \u2026 Nasarawa State.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Armed Fulani herdsmen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/amp\/news\/eight-killed-in-nigerian-ethnic-clashes-police-01640080807\">launched<\/a> attacks on Nasarawa farmers of the Tiv ethnic group from December 17 through December 19. The violence ensued over the recent killing of a Fulani kinsman in Nasarawa, which the cattle herders blamed on local Tiv farmers, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).<\/p>\n<p>Buhari denounced the 48 hours of bloodshed as \u201csenseless and barbaric\u201d in his statement Tuesday. He said his administration would \u201cleave no stone unturned\u201d in bringing the perpetrators \u201cto justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Buhari is himself a member of the Fulani ethnic group and a Muslim. Observers of Nigeria\u2019s worsening Fulani militant crisis have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2020\/09\/11\/nigerian-president-donald-trump-confronted-me-christian-murders\/\">criticized<\/a> Buhari for his failure to meaningfully curb the largely Muslim group\u2019s attacks on predominantly Christian farmers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari .. came to power, and the situation went from bad to worse,\u201d Salihu Musa Umar \u2014 the founder of Africa\u2019s Farmers and Herders Initiative for Peace and Development \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/observers.france24.com\/en\/africa\/20210428-farmer-herder-crisis-in-nigeria-s-middle-belt-could-blow-up-into-a-civil-war\">told<\/a> AFP on April 28.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany farmers have accused Buhari\u2019s government of bias \u2013 or worse, of stoking the violence for political gain,\u201d the news agency noted at the time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14811322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Muhammadu-Buhari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14811322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Muhammadu-Buhari.jpg\" alt=\"Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (R) addresses the audience following his re-election, after Nigeria&#039;s Independent National Electoral Commission presented his certificate of election on February 27, 2019, in Abuja. - Muhammadu Buhari was on February 27 re-elected Nigeria&#039;s president after a delayed poll that angered voters and raised political temperatures, but the opposition immediately vowed to challenge the &quot;sham&quot; result in court. (Photo by Kola SULAIMON \/ AFP) (Photo credit should read KOLA SULAIMON\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (R) addresses the audience following his re-election on February 27, 2019, in Abuja. (Photo credit should read KOLA SULAIMON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While ethnoreligious tension between Fulani nomads and other Nigerian agriculturalists has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/middle-east-and-africa\/2021\/05\/20\/a-nigerian-plan-to-reconcile-farmers-and-herders-is-not-working\">existed<\/a> for centuries, poor management of the situation by Buhari\u2019s government has allowed the conflict to reach a boiling point in recent months. Increased droughts across northern Nigeria have reportedly inspired Fulani herders to venture \u201cfurther south into the farmers\u2019 territory, creating one of the world\u2019s deadliest conflicts, as both sides compete for scarce resources,\u201d AFP detailed in late April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria\u2019s Middle Belt has been struck this year by a spike in farmer-herder violence, which in 2018 was six times deadlier than the Boko Haram insurgency, killing more than 2,000 people,\u201d the news agency reported, citing data from the International Crisis Group.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Violence arises most often when nomadic Fulani allow their livestock to illegally graze on Nigerian farmers\u2019 land, which may be privately owned or owned by individual Nigerian states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen villagers try to turn the pastoralists away, violent altercations are common,\u201d the <em>Economist<\/em> reported of the Fulani-farmer conflict on May 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCattle rustling, a common vice, adds to the volatility. Raids and reprisals sometimes lead to villages or nomadic encampments being burned, and herders or farmers killed,\u201d the newspaper acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn April, for instance, 83 people died in what appears to have been fighting between locals and pastoralists in three villages in Zamfara state,\u201d the publication recalled.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State Department, under the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/us-removes-nigeria-religious-freedom-list-ahead-blinken-visit-2021-11-18\/\">removed<\/a> Nigeria from its list of countries with religious freedom concerns on November 17. The action came less than one year after the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-puts-nigeria-on-religious-freedom-blacklist-with-china-saudi-arabia\/a-55858914\">added<\/a> Nigeria to the list on December 7, 2020, for the first time. Then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecPompeo\/status\/1336046221077733376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1336046221077733376%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dw.com%2Fen%2Fus-puts-nigeria-on-religious-freedom-blacklist-with-china-saudi-arabia%2Fa-55858914\">designated<\/a> Nigeria a country of concern under the U.S. International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 \u201cfor engaging systematic, ongoing, egregious religious freedom violations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jihadist Fulani terrorists killed at least 45 largely Christian Tiv farmers in central Nigeria\u2019s Nasarawa state in recent days, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed Tuesday. 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