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To ensure their victims were Christians, the jihadists addressed them in Fulani, the language spoken by local Muslims.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: March of the red/green brigades
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If the victims responded in Fulani they were saved.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: March of the red/green brigades
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The BBC's Will Ross, in Lagos, says the Jukun ethnic group is in dispute with the Muslim Hausa Fulani group over who the original inhabitants of the town are, and so who has the right to own land.
BBC: Nigeria clashes kills dozens at Wukari leader's funeral
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While Vieux Farka Toure takes his band on the festival circuit in London, British guitarist Justin Adams takes time out from his gig with Robert Plant to rock out with Juldeh Camara, a traditional Fulani musician from the Gambia.
NPR: Vieux Farka Toure, Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara: Rock 'N' Roll Goes To West Africa
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Dan Fodio, an ethnic Fulani Islamic scholar, rose up against the Hausa rulers of what is now northern Nigeria and Niger and created an empire which stretched from modern-day Burkina Faso to Cameroon, becoming one of Africa's largest pre-colonial states.
BBC: The Sultan of Sokoto Mohammadu Maccido
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In February and March, some 100 people were killed in fighting between local farmers and nomadic Fulani herdsmen in the eastern Taraba state over the right of the Fulani to continue to drive their cattle through an area where an increasing number of people live.
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