Niger: Death toll in Rafi communal crisis rises to 18 

The decease toll from the communal situation successful Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State has risen from 10 to 18 pursuing caller attacks linked to the lingering onshore quality allegedly betwixt Fulani and Kamuku communities successful the area.

The State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, said “the situation is linked to a longstanding quality betwixt the 2 tribes”.

According to him, a study received connected June 30 indicated that astatine astir 11:30 p.m. connected June 29, equipped men invaded Godoro colony successful Katako District and changeable dormant 25-year-old Ibrahim Musa.

He explained that the sidesplitting sparked a reprisal onslaught by members of a section vigilante group, popularly known arsenic Yansakai, who blocked a roadworthy and killed 28-year-old Bashir Mazi.

Abiodun further disclosed that different study received astatine astir 10 p.m. connected July 1 revealed that 15 radical were burnt to decease wrong a two-bedroom flat astatine Angwan-Baago, via Godoro village, portion different idiosyncratic was killed astatine a abstracted location, bringing the full fig of deaths successful the situation to 18.

He said the attac...