23 people killed Gunmen killed 23 people in four separate attacks in central Nigeria’s Benue state, a Red Cross official said yesterday, the latest flare-up of unrest in the region. The attacks happened Saturday night in four villages. Clashes between nomadic cattle herders and farmers over land use are common in central Nigeria. “Reports from the field have confirmed the killings of at least 23 people from different attacks,” Red Cross secretary in Benue state Anthony Abah told AFP. Several others were wounded, he added. Two attacks by gunmen last month in neighbouring Plateau state left more than 100 people dead. Across the wider Middle Belt, including in Benue, land used by farmers and herders is coming under stress from climate change and human expansion, sparking competition for increasingly limited space. New jet defended Donald Trump yesterday defended plans to receive a new Air Force One plane as a gift, after it was reported he would accept a luxury Boeing jet from Qatar despite strict rules on prese

• Published date: 13 May 2025
• Publication title: Northern Advocate, The (Whangarei, New Zealand)