Jacob, a young farmer from Benue state in central Nigeria, was forced to flee his village after herders came attacking in the night.
“The herdsmen were everywhere: they came with their guns and they burnt down our homes,” he tells The Independent, speaking from the Agagbe Camp for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Benue. The herders killed several of his brothers, and he has not been able to return to his village since without armed security.
