Unidentified gunmen have attacked two different places in Bawku, killing two individuals.
Moro Aziz, a mentally ill man from the Bawku area of Gozesi, was one of the fatalities. He was slain when he walked into the Bawku graveyard.
According to reports, the second victim, Kasim, was killed in Daduri, another Bawku neighborhood, while trying to find his way to another site.
With these deaths, there have been 35 fatalities in the region since the conflict’s revival in late October 2024.
The situation is still unstable even after the area was placed under a dawn-to-dusk curfew. After starting in November 2021 over the installation of a rival chief, the ethnic conflicts persisted throughout 2023 before waning.
But when Nayir installed the alternative chief, Alhaji Seidu Abagre, on October 25, 2024, the violence flared out again.
