Around 100 dead in clashes between gold miners in Chad

By Rédaction Africanews with AFP
Last updated: 21 hours ago - May 30, 2022

A hundred people were killed a week ago in clashes between gold miners in a remote desert region of northern Chad.

According to the Minister of Defence, General Daoud Yaya Brahim the clashes started on May 23 with clashes "from a banal dispute" between two gold miners.

Clandestine mines

The region, in the vast mountainous and desert massif of Tibesti, is full of mines, often operated clandestinely by a multitude of gold miners from all over the country and neighbouring states, Libya, Niger and Sudan.

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