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Deaths as gunmen attack town in southwest Nigeria

At least 11 people were killed in the attack in Igangan in Oyo state late on Saturday, police said.

Why insurgent and bandit attacks are intensifying in Nigeria

Violence is increasing against a backdrop of poor governance and deteriorating socio-economic conditions in northern Nigeria, further exacerbating instability across the region.

Deadly farmer-herder clashes flare up in Chad again

The fighting took place on Friday and Saturday in Salamat province, after cattle belonging to one herder ruined a field. The herders attacked as the farmers were taking the animals into an enclosure.

'Mali, Burkina Faso troops carried out almost 150 extrajudicial killings'

The Mali-based United Nations mission, MINUSMA, reports "an increase in serious human rights violations attributable to the Malian security forces."

Central Mali attack leaves 26 people dead

Officials say attack targeted a Fulani village in volatile Mopti region where Fulani herders and Dogon hunters occasionally clash.

HRW accuses Burkina Faso over killing of 31 unarmed civilians

HRW interviewed 17 people over the alleged killings, including 12 witnesses to the arrests and later burial of the victims, in Djibo, about 200 kilometres north of the capital Ouagadougou.

Soldiers among 40 killed in Mali's 'hunter-herder' violence

Thirty-one people – mostly Fulani herders – were apparently killed by Dogon hunters, a local official says. Nine soldiers were killed in a separate attack in central Gao region.

At least 30 killed in attacks in restive central Mali

Twenty-one people were killed in an attack overnight in Ogossagou village while the rest died in separate attacks.

Attack kills 14 in Mali as hunter-herder tensions grow

Armed men on motorbikes, wearing garb of traditional hunters known as Dozo, attack Siba village in central Mali, killing 13 men and one girl, UN says.

Death toll from attack on Mali herders rises to 157

UN human rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani says last weeks "horrific attacks" signal a "spike in killings" in a cycle of violence in the region that has caused 600 deaths and displaced thousands since last March.

More than 130 killed in Mali's hunter-herder clashes as UN visits

Attackers dressed as traditional Dogon hunters targeted Fulani herders in the villages of Ogossagou and Welingara in Mopti region, officials say.

Suspected militants kill at least 40 Tuaregs in Mali - official

Mostly young men were killed in two attacks in northern Menaka region, which seem calculated to spark an ethnic conflict between Tuareg and Fulani herders, governor Daouda Maiga says.