Violence between Fulani herdsmen and farmers is one of Nigeria’s most persistent security problems and has left thousands of people dead in recent decades.
The International Crisis Group think tank has warned it could become “as potentially dangerous as the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast”.
– What is the dispute about? –
The clashes are driven by a range of factors from the environmental to political — but at their core is the problem of land scarcity.
Climate change and the desertification of Nigeria’s north have forced the nomadic cattle herdsmen farther south to feed and sell their cattle, encroaching on the territory of sedentary farmers.
Rapid population growth — Nigeria has 180 million people today and is set to become the third largest in the world by 2050 — has worsened the competition for land.
– Why has there been a surge in…
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