Nigerian farmers abandon farms after attacks, sending food prices higher

ABUJA/MAIDUGURI Hassan Ya’u, a 42-year-old maize and sesame seed farmer in Nigeria’s northern Katsina state, was tending to his crops early this month when dozens of armed men on motorcycles rode towards his plot and started shooting at close range. Ya’u and fellow farmer Musa Nasidi managed to escape, but at least 50 people – many of them farmers working their fields at the time – were killed in the attack in the latest in a series of deadly raids on farming areas. An unknown number of people were abducted in the assault, which was carried out in broad daylight. […]

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