Armed men killed 30 people in weekend raids on six villages in Nigeria’s north, a region regularly hit by criminal violence and clashes between communities, local police have said. “They (bandits) were enraged by our refusal to negotiate with them and pay them protection money as other villages have done. ‘Killed by the bandits’Musa, a resident of Raka Dutse, told AFP the communities “buried 36 people yesterday (Sunday) who were killed by the bandits”. Bandits who terrorise the district launch attacks from their hideouts in nearby Tsauna and Kuyan Bana forests which stretch into neighbouring Niger, Abdullahi said. “The governments of Nigeria and Niger need to work together to fight these bandits who have established hideouts in the two forests,” Abdullahi said.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 08, 2023 03:28 UTC