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Managing Editor @SemaforAfrica. Previously @FT, @Reuters Nigeria bureau chief, @BBCWorld. Ghanaian family, British accent. Sign up: https://t.co/1BAR5cVDu6
Dec 19, 2018 11 tweets 6 min read
This thread focuses on @Reuters reporting of land-related violence in Nigeria's Middle Belt which killed thousands of people in 2018. We tracked land use by analysing satellite data and visited the region throughout the year. tmsnrt.rs/2GrBm9U 1/11 Over 1,300 people were killed in the Middle Belt in the first 6 mths of 2018, @CrisisGroup estimates - six times more than #BokoHaram in that period. And @amnesty says more than 3,600 people have been killed in clashes since 2016, mostly this year. reut.rs/2A4Y4PB 2/11