KOUNDOUL, Chad, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Cameroonian farmer Saleh Abderamane was bleeding from a machete wound to his head when his relatives ferried him across the river border to Chad among thousands of refugees fleeing violence between farmers and herders. The 34-year-old was attacked during a spate of fighting fuelled by water disputes in the…
More than 30,000 people in northern Cameroon have fled to Chad after ethnic clashes erupted this weekend, claiming at least 22 lives, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Friday.
Violence broke out in the border village of Ouloumsa on Sunday last week in a dispute between herders, fishers and farmers over dwindling water resources, the refugee agency said in a statement issued from Geneva, Switzerland.
It then spread to neighboring villages, 10 of which have been burned to the ground, the UNHCR said.
The clashes have displaced thousands inside Cameroon, “forcing more than 30,000 people to flee to neighboring Chad,”
A resurgence of violence between herders and fishers in Cameroon's Far North region – in which at least four people have died – has forced several thousand people to seek refuge over the border in Ch…
Several thousand people have fled deadly inter-ethnic clashes in northern Cameroon, seeking safety across the border in Chad, the Red Cross said Thursday.