(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Nigeria is sometimes called the "giant" of Africa for its relatively large population and economy. About half its people are Muslim and half Christian. It's also in the World Watch List, as one of the worst nations in the world for persecution.
It's hard to hear about the violence some of these people live through, their families and neighbors brutally killed and maimed by machete-wielding attackers. Homes and villages are burned, livestock killed, their living destroyed. The video relates their experience of a terrible attack last December.
Most of the targets are located in the area of largely Christian farmers. Amazingly, Wikipedia doesn't even mention this in their Nigeria article, in either the Crime or Human Rights sections. The attackers are usually Fulani herders (Muslim) or terror group Boko Haram (also Muslim).
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