Nigeria's Senate summons president to testify on communal killings


  • World
  • Thursday, 26 Apr 2018

FILE PHOTO: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 19, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's Senate on Thursday summoned President Muhammadu Buhari to testify about his administration's response to a spate of communal killings in central states.

On Wednesday, lawmakers from the lower house of parliament also invited Buhari to discuss the clashes between semi-nomadic herdsmen and settled farmers in central states, in which hundreds of people have died this year.

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