Nigeria's herder-farmer conflict: Deadly mix of religion, cattle and land in Plateau state
How a lack of justice and trust in the security forces perpetuates deadly violence in Plateau state.
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He was at home when gunmen attacked the village of Zike inhabited by the Christian Irigwe ethnic group.
"All of us in the house, we ran. That was how we survived."
As he hid in the fields, the young man listened as the attackers swept down through the village in the hills of Plateau state.
"I was just hearing them chanting Allahu Akbar [God is the greatest], saying: 'We will finish them today.'
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