Local peacemakers emerge as key solution to Nigeria's bandit crisis
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The article examines how local peacemakers like Dayyabu Abba-Kurfi (nicknamed "Doncaster") are helping resolve Nigeria's bandit crisis. Abba-Kurfi brokered a peace pact in Kurfi, Katsina state, bringing relative calm after years of violence. The crisis stems from population growth and climate change shrinking grazing routes since independence in 1960, pushing marginalized Fulani youths into vigilante groups that evolved into motorcycle-riding bandits involved in illegal mining and kidnapping, with 15,000 kidnapping incidents recorded.
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are local peacemakers the answer to Nigeria's bandit crisis?
A former football standout brokered a peace pact in Katsina, amid bandit violence driven by shrinking grazing routes, marginalisation, and landlessness.
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