Tag Archives: Fula people
AS Christians in Nigeria joined their counterparts across the world to celebrate Easter, which marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ, gunmen on Thursday night unleashed violence on the quiet Ganawuri chiefdom of Riyom Council, Plateau State, leaving no fewer than … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, Pan African News, West Africa
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Tagged Christian, Easter, Friday, Fula people, Nigeria, Plateau State, Special Task Force, STF
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By Umar Bello ‘Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness’ – Pierre Bourdeau: Recent happenings in Nigeria have again necessitated the need to look into our peculiar circumstances and see the factors that may hinder … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Fula people, Fulani, Hausa, Hausa-Fulani, IndepthAfrica, Ita Enang, Middle Belt, Nigeria, Northern Nigeria
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Attackers armed with guns and machetes stormed a village in central Nigeria’s Plateau state today killing 10 members of the same family amongst them five children under the age of ten. Two persons were also fatally injured and are receiving … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Christian, Fula people, Jos, Lieutenant, local Nigerian newspaper, Military uniform, Muslim, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian, Plateau State
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Several people were wounded in the Guinean capital Conakry Friday when police clashed with youth taking part in a funeral procession for two opposition supporters, sources said. The funeral took place three years to the day after a massacre by … read more »
Several people have been injured in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, in clashes between government and opposition supporters. There are also reports that one person was killed in the violence when protesters blocked the main bridge and barricaded the main roads. The … read more »
Posted in Guinea, News, West Africa
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Tagged Alpha Condé, bbc, Conakry, Ethnic group, Fula people, Guinea, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Mandinka people
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The Archbishop Metropolitan and Primate of All Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Most Reverend Nicholas Okoh, on Thursday. said that the survival of the Nigerian nation and respect for human life were the two main factors restraining Christians from fighting Boko Haram … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, Spotlight, West Africa
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Tagged Ado Ekiti, Anglican Communion, Boko Haram, Christian, Fula people, Goodluck Jonathan, IndepthAfrica, Most Reverend, Nigeria
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At least 35people have been killed in flooding in central Nigeria’s Plateau state after heavy rainfall caused a dam to overflow near the city of Jos. A Red Cross spokesman said that about 200 homes, many of them made from … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, Spotlight, West Africa
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Lagos – Attackers suspected to be from a rival ethnic group have stormed a remote area of Nigeria, killing at least 16 and burning homes in the latest flare-up of tensions in the region, police said on Tuesday. The violence … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African, African news, Benue State, Christian, Ethnic group, Fula people, Fulani, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Nigeria, Indepth Soccer, Muslim, Nigeria
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A look at their sedentary counterparts By Dodou Jawneh The phenomena of street children exist in various parts of the world particularly in poor countries. But where school children are also engaged in the street fending for their own survival, … read more »
Abdul Musah Sidibe’s rejoinder to public calls for swift action to deal with Fulanis abusing our Ghanaian hospitality is misconceived. In that rejoinder (“Media Ignorance: The Story of Ghanaian Fulani,” ghanaweb.com, 7/10/11), the writer created the erroneous impression that any … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Ghana, News, Spotlight, West Africa
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Tagged crime, Ethnic group, Fula people, Fulani, Ghana, Ghanaian Fulani, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Northern Nigeria, Pan African News, Southern Africa, United States, West Africa
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Kano – Police in northern Nigeria’s Zamfara state have arrested seven people suspected of involvement in a weekend raid on a village that left 19 people dead, the state governor said on Monday. Dozens of attackers suspected of belonging to … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, Boko Haram, Fula people, Gusau, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Lingyado, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Saturday, Southern Africa, West Africa, Zamfara State
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September 28, 2011 by benim
Many communities in Ghana have suffered for far too long at the hands of the Fulanis whose anti-social activities have now become a major national problem to confront with vigour and determination. Most of these Fulanis are accused of committing … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Columnist, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, Michael Bokor, News, West Africa
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Tagged crime, Fula people, Fulani, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Kofi Annan, National Security Advisor, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, West Africa, West African
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September 28, 2011 by benim
Conakry – Three people died in Guinea on Tuesday, according to hospital and police sources, when security forces used truncheons and tear gas to break up an opposition protest in the capital. Tensions are rising in the West African state … read more »
BAUCHI, Nigeria – Police say attackers killed at least 16 people and burned down 20 houses in a northern Nigerian town with a history of sectarian violence. The Bauchi state police chief told The Associated Press on Friday that the … read more »
Posted in Conflict/Tragedy, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Africa news, African news, Bauchi State, breaking news, Christian, Ethnic group, Fula people, IndepthAfrica, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthWorldIndepthNigeria, map of africa, Muslim, News local news, newspapers, Nigeria, World news
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Nigeria’s presidential elections are less than a month away. Incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, a southerner, continues to pursue outreach toward the north. Jonathan, whose candidacy undermines a north-south power-sharing agreement in the eyes of some northerners, has campaigned heavily in … read more »
Posted in Election, News, Nigeria, Politics, West Africa
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Tagged Africa maps, Africa news, African news, African tribes, breaking news, EFCC, Elections, Embassies and Consulates, Fula people, Goodluck Jonathan, Government, Ibrahim Babangida, Ibrahim Babangida (footballer), Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, Lagos, Muhammadu Buhari, News local news, newspapers, Nigeria, Nigeria 2011 elections, Nigeria news, Nigerian, political-news, Scam Niger Delta, Shehu Shagari, Vice President of Nigeria, World news, Yakubu Gowon, Yoruba people
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December 4, 2010 by benim
Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled Alpha Conde the winner of a November 7 presidential runoff election, the court’s president announced Friday in the country’s capital city. The ruling wraps up a two-year transition to civilian rule after a military junta … read more »
Posted in Article, Election, Guinea, News, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, Alpha Condé, Cellou Dalein Diallo, Conakry, Fula people, Guinea, IndepthAfrica, Mamadou Sylla, Sierra Leone, Two-round system
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November 15, 2010 by benim
Election authorities in Guinea missed a legal deadline on Monday for announcing results of a November 7 presidential poll in the latest setback for efforts to restore civilian rule in the West African state. Earlier, security forces clashed with several … read more »
Posted in Election, Guinea, News, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, Alpha Condé, Cellou Dalein Diallo, Conakry, Fula people, Guinea, IndepthAfrica, Mandinka people, West Africa
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November 13, 2010 by benim
Guinea’s former premier Cellou Dalein Diallo maintained a small lead over rival Alpha Conde in results published on Friday of just over half the votes cast in the West African country’s presidential election. Diallo had 51.8 percent to Conde’s 48.2 … read more »
Posted in Article, Election, Guinea, News, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African countries, African Union member states, Alpha Condé, aluminium, Cellou Dalein Diallo, Conakry, Diallo, Economic Community of West African States, economists, Fatou Bensouda, Fula people, geography, Guinea, guinea election, Guinea news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Least Developed Countries, political-news, United Nations General Assembly observers, West Africa
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November 11, 2010 by benim
Guinean voters have been told to wait a few more days for the first freely elected president in the country’s 52-year history, amid mounting allegations of fraud from both parties. Challenges have been leveled against results from a number of … read more »
Posted in Election, Guinea, News, West Africa
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Tagged Alpha Condé, Cellou Dalein Diallo, Conakry, Election, Fula people, Guinea, IndepthAfrica, Kouroussa, Politics, Siguiri
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November 10, 2010 by benim
Guinea’s former premier Cellou Dallein Diallo held a slight lead over his rival Alpha Conde after Sunday’s presidential run-off, partial preliminary results showed on Tuesday. With about 7 percent of the nationwide ballots tallied, the partial results issued by electoral … read more »
Posted in Election, Guinea, News, West Africa
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Tagged Africa elections, Africa news, Alpha Condé, Carter Center, Cellou Dalein Diallo, Ethnic group, Fula people, Guinea, IndepthAfrica, West Africa, Yakubu Gowon
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November 7, 2010 by benim
The people of the West African state of Guinea are going to the polls for a presidential run-off election. It had been hailed as the country’s first democratic election since independence from France in 1958. The candidates – former Prime … read more »
Posted in Election, Guinea, News, West Africa
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Tagged Alpha Condé, Cellou Dalein Diallo, electionrun-off, Fula people, Guinea, guinea election, IndepthAfrica, Lansana Conté, Said Djinnit, Union of Democratic Forces, West Africa
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October 30, 2010 by benim
Community leaders in Nigeria’s Plateau State are appealing for calm in villages outside the city of Jos. At least six people – women and children – were killed, cattle slaughtered and homes burned in one village this week. In January … read more »
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