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But an upsurge of attacks this year by herdsmen on farmers has left at least hundreds of Nigerian Christians dead.

The recent radicalization of Fulani herdsmen is part of a broader regional trend.

A sly nod the raw cloves rubbed on toast by the Catalan herdsmen who stake claim to the dish’s origins.

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Or her Delhi architecture school days, when she was too broke for jewellery and wore "cow beads" - fat glass beads strung across cow horns, bought off herdsmen near the hostel.

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Unlike the Islamic extremists that staged the Chibok kidnappings, the deadly criminal gangs terrorizing villages in northwestern Nigeria are mostly former herdsmen who were in conflict with farming host communities, according to authorities.

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