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Benue State · Crises, Wars & Protests

Benue State · Crisis deep dive

Yar'Adua / Jonathan (2007–2015)

  • 2010 onwards — onset of the modern Farmer–Herder Crisis. Fulani pastoral movements south into Tiv and Idoma farmland intensify after the 2009–2010 Sahel drought; first major recorded clashes at Agatu (March 2011), Guma and Logo.Climate-Conflict Escalator
  • March 2013 Agatu massacre — c. 50 killed in coordinated dawn attacks across 7 Agatu villages.
Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.