Niger State Governor Umaru Bago has imposed a curfew on communities in Rafi Local Government Area after renewed clashes between Kamuku and Fulani groups left an estimated 80 people dead.
The violence, rooted in a land dispute, escalated in Tashar Bako and spread toward Kagara, where a mob tried to storm a hospital treating herders before soldiers intervened. Bago has deployed security forces and asked a local emir to lead a reconciliation committee, stressing the clash should not be read as an ethnic feud.
Separate from the clashes are organised banditry and jihadist violence that have plagued neighbouring Shiroro and Munya, where a Boko Haram-linked cell and armed gangs have operated for years.
Over 50 people were killed in a January market raid in Borgu and in May, hundreds of bandits crossed into Shiroro from Kaduna and Zamfara, prompting military airstrikes.
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