ThinkShe Aid Foundation

WOLRD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2026
Today, we celebrate our contributions to environmental sustainability and protection through the Tech and Environment Empowerment Project.

We also recognize the efforts and actions of all climate actors working tirelessly to ensure a safe climate and environment for us and for future generations.

Let’s continue to make a difference by:

🌴 Planting trees
♻️ Recycling waste appropriately
🔄 Reusing smartly
Together, a sustainable environment and a stable climate are possible.

Today at the News Central TV Town Hall on Recurrent Attacks Across the Middle Belt.

Representing ThinkShe Aid Foundation, the Executive Director Alexander Longdi Yildet joined Government officials, Security Agencies, CSOs, and community members and victims to discuss one hard truth: Why does the violence persist?

After years on the ground, the answer is not complicated, but it is uncomfortable.

The violence persists because of three things:

1. The conflict has shifted beyond the false farmer-herder narrative. What we are seeing now is organized armed violence tied to land control, identity, and political exclusion. Continuing to frame it as a farmer-herder issue oversimplifies the crisis and prevents real solutions.

2. Impunity has normalized violence. When perpetrators are not arrested and prosecuted, it sends a message that violence works. That fuels reprisals and erodes trust in state institutions.

3. Communities feel abandoned. Where state presence is weak, people resort to self-help and vigilante groups. That only escalates the conflict and makes it harder to restore order.

Our recommendations as a CSO on the ground:
- Strengthen early warning and early response systems at the community level so attacks are prevented, not just responded to.
- Ensure swift justice and accountability for all perpetrators, regardless of group or affiliation.
- Prioritize livelihood recovery and community healing for displaced populations. People cannot rebuild peace when they cannot feed their families.

The stakeholders in that room agreed that the current approach is not working. What we need now is coordinated action, not more talking.

The people of the Middle Belt deserve to farm without fear, to sleep without fear, and to rebuild without fear.