Qaddafi Regime's Legacy Fuels Violence in West Africa (2).

POPULATION; VIOLENCE; FUEL; CIVIL society; CATHOLIC bishops

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has blamed that cocktail of guns and gunmen for the intensifying clashes between crop farmers and herders as well as robberies and kidnapping by bandit gangs. With Buhari seeking a second four-year term in general elections due in February, the farmer-herder conflict is likely to feature among the emotive issues, said Imad Mesdoua, an analyst at London-based Control Risks Group. [Extracted from the article]

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