West Africa’s Fulani Herdsmen Conundrum: Is There No End in Sight?

Herdsman holding his weapon

Accra, Ghana, January 10, 2018//-It  may take many years of counseling for the people of  Agogo, a farming community in the Asante Akyem North District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana to forget about  the horrific shooting of three soldiers on one Monday afternoon.

They were members of the country’s Operation Cow Leg taskforce set up by the government to address perennial conflicts between local farmers and nomadic Fulani herdsmen in the country.

The soldiers who sustained life-threatening gunshot wounds were ambushed by the Fulani herdsmen on Monday, January 8, 2018, after responding to a distress call from a woman that her farm crops were being destroyed by a herd of cattle.

By Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh.

Full story at African Eye Report.