26
Oct
18 worshippers were killed by attackers who attacked a mosque in northern Nigeria during early morning prayers on Monday, local authorities and police informed. The attack took place in Mazakuka village in Mashegu local government area of the country’s Niger state. The attackers, believed to be ethnic Fulani nomadic herders, were able to escape. Similar ethnic violence, which has led to hundreds of deaths so far this year, stems from a decades-long conflict over access to water and land. Some of the Fulani caught up in that conflict have taken up arms against local Hausa farming communities. “The attackers came…