21.09.2006 - Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (formerly Global IDP Project)

Hausa-Fulani Muslims complained that Christian farmers steal their cattle; according to farmers cattle encroach on their land; in 2004 1,000 people died, 258,000 were displaced in outbreak of violence ("Heightened risk of violence and displacement ahead of 2007 elections") [ID 17983]

"In predominantly Christian Plateau state the majority of “set-tlers” belong to the northern Hausa-Fulani ethnic group, nomads who have gradually moved southwards as the ex-panding Sahara desert has dried up their traditional grazing lands (IRIN, 30 De-cember 2005). Hausa-Fulani Muslims have long complained that predomi-nantly Christian farmers steal their cattle and prevent them from grazing, whilst the farmers counter that cattle encroach on their land. At the same time there are indigenous Muslim ethnic groups fiercely opposed to the perceived expan-sionist tendencies of the Hausa-Fulanis (IDMC interview, Jos, December 2004). One of the most alarming outbreaks of violence resulting from the tensions oc-curred in 2004, when a spiral of revenge killings between mainly Muslim cattle herders and Christian farmers in central Plateau state left possibly more than 1,000 people dead and 258,000 tempo-rarily displaced – around 60,000 of them in camps in neighbouring Bauchi and Nassarawa states (Reuters, 4 August 2004; GIDPP, 30 June 2004)."

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17.04.2003 - Source: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

Query response on September 2000 riots between the Hausa-Fulani and the Yoruba; current relations between the two ethnic groups in Lagos ("September 2000 riots between the Hausa-Fulani and the Yoruba; current relations between the two ethnic groups in Lagos [NGA41157.E]") [ID 24735]

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15.07.2002 - Source: Integrated Regional Information Network

New fighting between mailnly Christian and mainly Muslim ("Nigeria: Fresh violence in Plateau claims more lives") [#7830],  [ID 14984]

"At least 12 people have been killed in a fresh outbreak of ethnic and religious violence in Plateau State, central Nigeria, sources from the area said.
The latest round of clashes erupted on Wednesday in the town of Wase between Taroks, who are indigenous to the area, and Hausa-Fulani settlers, who originally came from farther north. "No fewer than 12 people have been killed and several houses have been destroyed," John Ibe, an area resident who escaped to the Plateau State capital, Jos, told IRIN.
State-owned Radio Nigeria in the northern town of Kaduna confirmed the clashes on Friday and quoted Plateau State Commissioner of Police Innocent Ilozuoke as saying 74 people had been arrested in connection with the violence. However, no casualty figures were given.
There have been intermittent clashes between Hausa-Fulanis, who are overwhelmingly Muslim, and mainly Christian indigenous people in Plateau State since September 2001, when at least 1,000 people were killed in a week of fighting in Jos between the two communities.
Indigenous people blame some of the attacks on Fulani herdsmen who, they say, have been seeking to avenge the death of one of their chiefs in the September Jos conflict. The herdsmen in turn accuse the indigenes of giving them ultimatums to leave land which, for decades, had been their traditional grazing areas."

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02.01.2002 - Source: Integrated Regional Information Network

17 people killed and several injured in an attack by suspected Muslim Hausa-Fulani militants on Dagwom Turu, Jos/ 3,000 people fled to Jos ("Nigeria: 3,000 flee to Jos following militia attack") [#5122],  [ID 14985]

"More than 3,000 people have sought refuge at a military barracks in Jos, capital of central Nigeria's Plateau State, following an attack by armed men on a nearby village, police told IRIN on Wednesday. Seventeen people were killed and several others wounded in the attack, blamed on Muslim Hausa-Fulani militiamen, state officials told IRIN. Most of the people who have taken refuge at the Rukuba barracks are Hausa-Fulanis who fear retaliatory attacks, police said."

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