SPECIAL REPORT-Bombing of herders highlights air attacks by Nigerian military

There were so many dead.” Dozens of ethnic Fulani herders were killed in a Jan. 24 aerial bombing in the central Nigerian state of Nasarawa as they were unloading cattle retrieved from authorities in a neighbouring state, according to witnesses, local leaders and detailed complaints describing the day’s events.

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