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The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-backed faction of Boko Haram
 ...Nigeerian Islamist group, formerly paying homage to al-Qaeda, then, when the money ran out, to the Islamic State, and headed by nutcase Abu Bakr Shekau. Once he exploded in a gunfight with ISWAP, many in the group surrendered to the govt and others went with their new overlords. The remainder are a shell of their former selves, stmbling glassy-eyed and lonely through the Sambisa Forest and the soothing waters of Lake Chad, asking themselves What is truth? , or maybe just I wonder what's for dinner? I hope it's not rhinocerous again! ...
, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, has suspended farmers from going to their farms in the outskirt of Buni Yadi, a community in the Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State.
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in Yobe State have said its members lost over 100 hectares of farmland to the activities of Boko Haram gunnies and criminal herdsmen in three local government areas of the state.
This was made known by the Yobe State Chapter Chairman of AFAN Alhaji Usman Ngari, on Wednesday.
"Gujiba, Geidam and Yunusari Local Governments are facing challenges of insecurity and also during the harvests, they faced challenges with herders who destroyed some of the farms with their cattle.
"More than a hundred hectares of farmland were destroyed by gunnies and herdsmen," Tribune quoted him as saying.
He said despite that, farmers in the state produced good harvest with minimal rainfall they witnessed during the rainy season.
"This year, the farmers have really done well, only in some parts, the rains stopped earlier, but overall production has been good but it is not 100 per cent", he added.
He however said there was an ongoing registration of farmers who are interested in irrigation, and many farmers are showing interest.
Alhaji Ngari said a meeting was held between AFAN, herders and the Federal Government to find a lasting solution to the crisis between the farmers and herders.
He said it was agreed that the grazing reserve which was taken away by farmers would be returned to the herders so that they could keep their livestock there without encroaching into farms.
"We have made two major arrangements for the January dry season farming, firstly, we had a meeting with herders together with the federal government to return the grazing reserves that were taken away by the farms to the herders so that they will have enough grass and water for their livestock," he noted. 
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