Source: Bloomberg
“Nigerian President Bola Tinubu ordered security agencies to hunt down the perpetrators of a massacre in a key food-producing region that’s highlighted growing insecurity in the West African nation. Unidentified assailants killed more than 100 people in an attack in the southeastern state of Benue …. Thousands of people have died in a yearslong conflict over access to land and water in Benue between nomadic herders and mostly sedentary farmers. … The attack in Benue deepens scrutiny of the Tinubu’s efforts to improve security in Nigeria, at a time when Islamist militants have ramped up an insurgency in the north of the country. Almost 7,000 people have been killed in Benue since the government took power two years ago, Amnesty International said in a May 29 report, driving farmers off their land and stressing the nation’s already fragile food security.” (06/19/25)