[FILES] In this photo taken on September 15, 2016 women and children queue to enter one of the Unicef nutrition clinics at the Muna makeshift camp which houses more than 16,000 IDPs on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria.Aid agencies have long warned about the risk of food shortages in northeast Nigeria because of the conflict, which has killed at least 20,000 since 2009 and left more than 2.6 million homeless.
According to Ochogwu, Nigeria’s Benue valley comprising Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Nasarawa, Adamawa and Kaduna have experienced escalating tensions between farmers and herders.This he said had led to deaths, loss of livelihoods, displacements and disruption of states’ economy within the area. “Between 2017 and May 2020, 645 attacks were carried out, 2,539 people were killed and 254 kidnappings were recorded in various states in Nigeria.”Ochogwu said that key findings of the research included trends and pater of the conflict, gender dimension of the conflict, demographic shift, mental health and psychological support, and community resilience among others.
He urged the state governments to strengthen the already existing community policing structure such as vigilantes for intelligence gathering.According to him, the research recommended that development partners should partner with the government and community-based organisations to ensure that women are mainstreamed in peace building programmes.
What is Nigeria turning into, issue of farmers and herders clash is persisting daily and still the federal government of Nigeria is defending their unseeing efforts. from - The GLOBAL TEAM FOR PUBLIC RIGHTS.
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300,000 is an under estimated figure.