Fighting between people from Mauritania and Libya who are informal gold miners, in a remote part of northern Chad has left about 100 people dead and 40 injured.
The Chadian government said today that what started as a “mundane dispute between two individuals… degenerated” into deadly clash.
The country’s Defence Minister, Daoud Yaya Brahim said that the clashes occurred last week and that details are only just emerging now.
He said that government immediately sent a mission to the affected area, which is about 1,000km (620 miles) north-east of the capital, N’Djamena, when news of violence first came through.
According to the Defence Minister, a large military contingent has restored calm to the area, adding that all gold mining activities in Kouri Bougoudi have now been suspended.
Source: AFP.
