Echoing a pattern of conflict that has been seen across West Africa, gunmen last week attacked a village in Nigeria’s Plateau state and killed 50 people.
Much of West Africa has been plagued by violence between cattle-herding semi-nomadic communities and more settled agricultural communities.
While these conflicts usually begin over land, they often take on an ethnic or religious dimension as the conflict progresses.
In response to the attack, which no group has yet claimed responsibility for, Nigerian authorities issued a 24-hour curfew in the province.
Survivors of the attack blame local Fulani cattle herders for the attack.
A local pro-agriculturalist group accused the Nigerian army of doing little to help.
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