Nigeria charges nine with the 2025 massacre that killed 150
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ABUJA — Nigerian prosecutors filed 57 terrorism-related charges on Monday against nine men accused of carrying out a deadly attack on the Yelwata community in Nigeria’s central Benue state in June 2025 that killed about 150 people. Benue sits in Nigeria’s volatile Middle Belt, the fault line between the Muslim north and Christian south. Years of violence over land, religion, and ethnicity have proved hard for the authorities to rein in. The charges, filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja, say
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