source: Benin Web TV; La Nouvelle (Benin); Banouto; La Vraie Info (Benin); Daabaaru; L'investigateur
actor1: Unidentified Communal Militia (Benin)
actor2: Police Forces of Benin (2016-)
location: Tapoga
notes: On 27 November 2021, a young man with a machete as part of a group of farmers attacked and wounded a police chief at the market in the village of Tapoga (Cobli, Atacora). Police officers shot and killed the farmer. Police had come to the area to calm tension between farmers and Fulani pastoralists and to arrest a farmer believed to be the instigator.