Nigeria imposes partial curfew after deadly attack

Nigerian authorities on Sunday imposed a curfew in parts of central Plateau state, a day after suspected militia attacked a convoy of 90, killing at least 23.

Northwest and central Nigeria have for years struggled with violence between mainly Muslim nomadic herders and Christian farmers over control of resources, water and land.

Condemning the attack, President Muhammadu Buhari said in a statement that this was “not an agriculturalist-on-pastoralist confrontation but rather a direct, brazen and wickedly motivated attack.”

Police had initially said 22 of the 90 travellers were killed, but the death toll was revised upwards on Sunday.