At least 22 people were killed and 18 others injured Saturday (6/8) in a clash between farmers and farmers in Chad, 200 km east of the capital N’Djamena, in an area where deadly inter-tribal clashes are taking place, local officials told AFP. .
The episodes broke out due to the conflict between two communities.
One community wants to settle in the area and the other to prevent it, explained Amina Kotziana, the governor of Hajer-Lami province in central Chad. Members of the Boulala tribe, farmers permanently settled, with Arabs, nomadic cattle breeders, clashed in the village of Zoana, he explained.
The death toll has reached ” 22 dead and 18 injured, ” the official said.
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” We sent law enforcement forces on Saturday ” to the area to restore calm, said Abdraman Koulamala, a government spokesman.
Conflicts between tribes or communities are common in central and southern Chad, where many residents carry weapons. Episodes usually erupt between nomadic Arab cattle breeders and indigenous farmers, who accuse the former of destroying their fields to feed.
Contacts are being made with “representatives of the two communities to put an end to this ever-recurring conflict ,” the provincial governor said.
For his part, the government spokesman said that the authorities ” proceeded to the complete disarmament of the civilians ” and added that there was a “reconciliation” of the two sides and ” calm has been fully restored ” in the area.
Clashes between farmers and ranchers killed 11 people in December and another 35 in February in southern Chad.
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