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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,”

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