Africa
Nigeria: Fulani nomads named in attack on village
A clash between Fulani herdsmen and Berom farmers in Nigeria's Plateau state follows growing ethnic violence and vigilantism across the country's northern plains.
Tag: Fulani
North Africa
Mali: Tuareg rebels declare end to ceasefire
Tuareg rebels of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) announced that they are ending their ceasefire with the Malian government following new clashes.
North Africa
Mali: Tuareg rebels call for ICC war crimes probe
Tuareg rebels called on the International Criminal Court to investigate what they called war crimes committed by Malian government forces during the current conflict.
North Africa
The left and the jihad: love-hate relationship?
"Leftists" in the West are waxing paranoid about how the Syrian revolutionaries are a bunch of jihadists. But if the West intervenes in Mali, they will likely be rooting for jihadists—again.
North Africa
Mali: pastoralists trapped between drought, jihadis
Hundreds of nomadic Fulani pastoralists in central Mali are trapped between floodplains to the south and armed Islamist rebels to the north, and fear their way of life faces extinction.