Nigeria | July 12, 2024
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In July 2022, the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa (ORFA) published a 27 page report on all killings and abductions occurring in Nigeria in the period 1 October 2019 – 30 September 2021. In summary, the data shows that, especially in Nigeria’s northern states, jihadist-related actors are targeting Christians for both killings and abductions and that this is done by particularly attacking communities, above all during the farming season (March – September).
Frans Veerman, Managing Director of World Watch Research, comments: “The ORFA report follows the reporting periods used for the Open Doors’ World Watch List (WWL) but goes into greater detail than is used in WWL documentation. The farming months are crucial for the livelihoods of rural communities and, as the report points out clearly, attacks during this period have the most serious impact on rural communities. Indeed, it seems that jihadists such as Fulani militia aim to kill or starve their victims, who are predominantly Christians. Reports dealing with violence in other countries sometimes refer to this sort of situation as ‘genocide by attrition’.”
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