What we know about central Nigeria's surge in violence

A mother watches a child suffering malnutrition undergoing intensive care in a clinic set up by health authorities in collaboraion with Medecins Sans Frontieres or Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Katsina State, northwest Nigeria, on July 20, 2022. [AFP]

Attacks in Nigeria's troubled north-central state of Plateau have killed more than more than 100 people in just under two weeks.

Plateau, on the dividing line between Nigeria's mostly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south, has historically been a flashpoint for intercommunal violence.