Farmer-herder clashes threat to West Africa – Deputy Senate President warns, seeks regional action

Deputy President of the Senate and First Deputy Speaker of Economic Community of West Africa States, ECOWAS Parliament, Barau Jibrin, has called for stronger determination mechanisms to forestall farmer-herder conflicts successful West Africa.

He warned that ongoing deadly conflict implicit onshore and h2o could substance displacement, banditry, coercion and humanitarian crises crossed the region.

Barau made the telephone astatine the Second Extraordinary Session and Seminar of the ECOWAS Parliament holding successful Accra, Ghana wherever helium spoke successful a presumption titled “Strategies for Addressing Internal Displacement and Farmer-Herder Conflicts successful Nigeria” done Senator Sadiq Umar (APC Kwara North).

He said Nigeria’s acquisition offers utile lessons for West Africa and Africa successful tackling displacement and resource-based conflicts.

According to him, Nigeria is blessed with extended cultivation and pastoral economies, with the bulk of its colonisation depending connected farming and livestock.

However, helium said expanding unit connected onshore and h2o resources has triggered conflicts, banditry, coercion and different disasters.

Barau said Nigeria established the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction to negociate exigency alleviation and effect systems for internally displaced persons.

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