Transhumance is the movement of livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle, typically to lowlands in winter and highlands in summer. The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Marcel de Souza, stated this while receiving the Minister of Interior, General Abdurahman Danbazzau (rtd) and his team yesterday in Abuja. He told his guests that the clashes between herders and farmers had become incessant resulting in pockets of draught and increasing movement of cattle to coastal areas within the sub-region. Whereas it is the ECOWAS Commission that regulates the movement of arms into West Africa,” he stated. Danbazzau noted that the dimensions to regional security had become very worrisome with the herders-farmers’ clashes occurring alongside terrorist attacks.

Source: The Guardian January 17, 2018 03:45 UTC