It is a crisis within a crisis. Some 200 kilometres from Bamenda, the capital of the North-West region, the green hills of Ndu – in the Ndongang-Mantung region – may offer abundant grazing in this ...

When Cameroon’s opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary quietly slipped into The Gambia last month, it brought to an end weeks of media speculation over his whereabouts and who had the clout to keep ...

At least 23,000 Fulani herders have fled Nigeria's eastern Taraba State to Cameroon to escape clashes which broke out in the Mambilla plateau with farming communities at the beginning of the year, a ...

ABUJA – A member of the House of Representatives, Terseer Ugbor, has raised concerns over the escalating insecurity in Benue State, alleging that Fulani herdsmen have taken control of 40 percent of ...

The Fulani people are Africa's largest pastoralist group. There are between 25 million and 40 million Fulani people across 17 African countries, from the Atlantic shores of Senegal and Mauritania to ...

Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The study reveals a complex genetic ancestry with influences from both North ...

Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building community and defending human rights can positively influence how people experience events ...

Leader of Fulani herdsmen Haruna Usman pictured by Reuters in 2014. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde The Fulani later defended the attack, saying it was in retaliation for an attack on one of their prominent ...

Deep in northern Cameroon, hidden among remote mountain villages, the Mbororo and Fulani tribes still practice ancient scarification rituals few outsiders have ever witnessed. Before major market days ...

The Fulani people of West and Central Africa are historically a nomadic people, herdsmen who are peaceful and educated. Since the lighter-skinned ruling class of a primary country of origin for Fulani ...