Afghani herdsmen and American animal rights activists surely disagree about a lot, morally speaking.

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Until the droughts of the 1980s, most of its people were nomadic herdsmen.

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The Sudanese government repressed the insurgency, bombing villages and arming nomadic Arab herdsmen, Janjaweed, who have a history of land disputes with the farmers.

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Higher cereals prices prompt herdsmen to sell more of their livestock.

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It lies on their border and is inhabited both by nomadic herdsmen who are loyal to Sudan and other groups who are closely linked to the South.

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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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