Gunmen kidnap more than 50 people in north-west Nigeria | Nigeria
According to a special conflict monitoring report created for the UN and seen by Agency France-Presse on Sunday, the armeds missed more than 50 people in Northwest Nigeria with a mass kidney.
In the report, the “Armed Hayduts” targeted the village of Sabon Garin in the State of Zamfara on Friday.
The report stated that this was the first “mass capture” event in the Bakura Local Government Zone this year. “It was the last trend of mass captures in Zamfara,” he said.
Zamfara police spokesman did not respond to the request.
Nigeria’s “Haydutluk” crisis stem from the clashes on land and water rights between shepherds and farmers, but turned into organized crime, and the gangs hunted rural communities that have been very few or never.
The conflict worsen a malnutrition crisis in the northwest, because the attacks remove people from their farms in a complex situation with climate deterioration and Western aid cuts.
The bandits in Zamfara killed 33 people Local people, last month, $ 33,700 (£ 25,000) ransom, although they kidnapped in February, three babies died under captivity, he said.
Since 2011, as weapon smuggling increased and fell into a wider salal turmoil, cattle rustling and kidnapping in Northwest Nigeria have become largely large in rural areas in the poor.
Groups also pay taxes for farmers and craftsmen miners.
In recent years, violence has spread from north-to-north-middle Nigeria.
Nigerian troops killed at least 95 members of an armed gang in a clash and air strikes in the northwest state of Niger two weeks ago.
But the army is extremely stretching. Analysts say that although the advanced cooperation between the army and the Air Force has helped war, the air strikes have killed hundreds of civilians over the years.
First of all, the bandits motivated with money increased the cooperation with Nigeria’s jihadist groups, which made a 16-year armed uprising in the north-east.
The recent emergence of the Lakurawa jihadist group in North-West has worsening violence in the region.
The governments of the affected states had to hire the anti -Jihadist militias who fought the northeast militants to help with the bandits.
