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Niger

11 killed in clashes between farmers and Fulani herdsmen

10 May 2005 - IRIN

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]

NIAMEY, - Clashes between nomadic herdsmen and local landowners in drought-hit Niger resulted in the death of 11 people at the weekend, a radio journalist who visited the scene told IRIN on Monday.

The clashes ocurred on Saturday near Dosso, 140 km southeast of the capital Niamey, Mamadou Mamane, a local correspondent of the state-run radio station Voix du Sahel (Voice of the Sahel) told IRIN.

Fighting broke out after a woman from the village of Afomata started hitting a cow belonging to a nomadic herdsman from the Fulani ethnic group when the animal had strayed from the rest of the herd to graze on her crops, Mamane said.

The herdsman in charge of the cow retalliated by hitting the woman and then retreated to his camp, he added.

Shortly afterwards, a crowd of villagers from Afomata attacked the Fulani settlement. Eleven people were killed and several others injured in the clash, Mamane said.

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