The report, issued in its May 2026 edition, described a pattern of attacks attributed to Fulani militants and other armed actors, noting that such violence is often used to instill fear and force communities to abandon their homes.
A new report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has stated that militant violence in Nigeria’s Middle Belt has driven at least 1.3 million people from their land into displacement camps, warning of widespread insecurity, abductions, and targeted attacks on religious communities.
The report, issued in its May 2026 edition, described a pattern of attacks attributed to Fulani militants and other armed actors, noting that such violence is often used to instill fear and force communities to abandon their homes.
It stated that “night, eliciting terror as a way to force victims to quickly leave and to achieve greater control of desired land.”
According to the commission, “These Fulani militant attacks, among those of other actors, have forced at least 1.3 million people in the Middle Belt off their land and into overcrowded, unsanitary, and unsafe conditions in displacement camps.”
