00:00 Gunshots in Mangu district as assailants stormed villages and burned houses.
00:08 More than a hundred people were killed in the violence last week alone.
00:12 Every house was set ablaze and all the grains were all burned.
00:22 Houses were burned, properties were destroyed.
00:25 There was looting.
00:26 We saw them.
00:27 We even saw the machineries, the attackers.
00:31 The attacks were in reprisal for farmers killing a herder and his cattle earlier this month.
00:36 Local security forces say that calm has been restored,
00:40 but several villages are still struggling with tensions.
00:44 It's part of a deadly rivalry that's been going on for years
00:48 between local farmers, who are mostly Christian, and herders, who are mostly Muslim.
00:54 It began as a battle for land and water.
00:57 Climate change and desertification has pushed the nomadic herders
01:00 into southern Nigeria in search for land for grazing.
01:04 That's put them at odds with locals.
01:06 Tit-for-tat attacks have seen the conflict escalate.
01:10 People come in a large number, so we don't have weapons that we can defend ourselves.
01:17 Only we have catapults and berserk.
01:22 Last week, more than 3,000 people were displaced because of the violence
01:27 and hundreds of homes were destroyed.
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