On Saturday, November 28, a group of militiamen from the terrorist group Boko Haram killed at least 110 people in an attack on an agricultural area near the city of Maiduguri, in northeastern Nigeria. Lower estimates initially circulated that spoke of around 40 deaths, but the figure has been updated by Edward Kallon, the coordinator of UN activities in Nigeria.
The people killed were farmers from the Nigerian state of Sokoto – a thousand kilometers from Maiduguri – who came to work in the rice fields. Kallon has explained ad France Media Agency that the assailants – “armed men on motorcycles” – also hit other communities in the area.
Last month, also near Maiduguri, Boko Haram had already killed twenty-two farmers. The terrorist group has been attacking workers in the region for some time, deeming them too close to the Nigerian National Army and local militias.
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