Nigeria’s Buhari Calls for Calm as 86 Die in Farmer, Herder Clashes

Nigeria’s Buhari Calls for Calm as 86 Die in Farmer, Herder Clashes
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on April 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images
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BAUCHI, Nigeria—Nigeria’s president called for calm on Sunday after at least 86 people died in clashes between farmers and semi-nomadic herders over the weekend.

Authorities imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in central Plateau state after the fighting, part of an escalation of clashes that have raged for years, often over dwindling fertile land.