Armed people have kidnapped more than 50 people in northwestern Nigeria. The last “mass ear” in the state of Zamfara shows the missile crisis is moving from land conflict to organized criminals.
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Armed people have stolen more than 50 people in northwestern Nigeria as a result of the mass abduction, privacy monitoring reports on conflicts prepared for the United Nations and the press to see Sunday.
On Friday, Islamic armed robbers attacked the village of Sabon Garin Damri in Zamfara state, it was said that it was the last attack in the region, where the residents of the rural area had to endure gangs to get ransom, tax robbery and tax request, report to France.
The report noted that this was the first incident with a mass arrest of Muslims in this year's Bakur government. The report indicates a recent trend on mass arrests in Zamfara.
The representative of police Zamfara did not respond to the request of the comments, the France-Presse agency emphasized.
The crisis of the bandit in Nigeria arises due to a conflict of land and water among cattle and farmers, but has developed an organized criminal, when gangs hunt for rural communities, in which the government is really not present for a long time.
The conflict worsens the crisis with malnutrition in the northwest of the country, because the attacks forced people to leave their farms in a complex situation by climate decline and Western help.
Last month, the bandits at Zamfara killed 33 people they stolen in February, despite receiving a ransom of $ 33,700, and three babies died in captivity, local residents said that the Agence France-Presse reported.
Since 2011, when weapons have increased, and riots began in the Sahel region, the organized armed gangs were established in northwestern Nigeria, where the huge amount of money stole pets and kidnapping people in poor rural areas.
Groups are also taxed from taxes from farmers and miners.
In recent years, violence has spread from the Northwest to the north of the center of Nigeria.
Two weeks ago, the Nigerian army destroyed at least 95 members of a armed gang due to the result of a shooting and aircraft in northwestern Nigeria.
But the army is overloaded, the French countries-Fresse. According to analysts, although the improvement of cooperation between the army and the air force has contributed to the struggle, hundreds of civilians have died over the years as a result of airlines.
The bandits, guided mainly in money, also strengthened cooperation with Nigerian jihadist groups, who conducted a separate armed rebellion in the Northeast of the country for 16 years.