{"id":73793,"date":"2024-03-21T17:16:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/clashes-between-rival-communities-in-chad-kill-42\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T17:16:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:16:19","slug":"clashes-between-rival-communities-in-chad-kill-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/clashes-between-rival-communities-in-chad-kill-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Clashes between rival communities in Chad kill 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Clashes between \u201ctwo communities\u201d in eastern Chad have killed at least 42 people in a desert region of the vast Sahel country often hit by land disputes, authorities said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The public security ministry did not say who was involved in the fighting or how long it went on, but the area regularly sees clashes between sedentary farmers and nomadic breeders, or other groups, over land.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1750436\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The latest violence led to 175 people being arrested at the scene, where \u201ca large part\u201d of the village of Tileguey in Ouaddai province was \u201cset on fire by armed men\u201d, the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis deadly conflict has so far left 42 dead,\u201d the ministry said on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Chadian media reports said the fighting lasted several days, with some saying it began on Sunday. However, the reports could not be verified by the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation is under control but I\u2019m trying to reconcile the different parties,\u201d Public Security Minister General Mahamat Charfadine Margui told <em>AFP<\/em> in a telephone message.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said he was at the site, around 700 kilometres east of the capital, N\u2019Djamena.<\/p>\n<p>He was heading a government and army delegation, aimed at \u201cshedding full light\u201d on the incident.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"ancestral-disputes\" href=\"#ancestral-disputes\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>Ancestral disputes<\/h2>\n<p>In eastern and southern Chad, where many residents are armed, clashes frequently break out as farmers accuse herders of allowing animals to graze on their land or trample on crops.<\/p>\n<p>Most clashes between herders and farmers occur in the annual transhumance corridors where vegetation is thick and suitable for crops and feeding livestock.<\/p>\n<p>However, in Ouaddai, they tend to generally be about land ownership, with villages and clans sometimes killing each other for plots of land.<\/p>\n<p>Such ancestral disputes have grown in recent years in this region of the continent, affecting Sudan, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Cameroon and Nigeria as well as Chad, whose southern or northern parts border the Sahelian strip.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--stretch  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1593157\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Herders generally come from the arid Sahelian regions and seek to settle on more fertile land where they can raise their camels and sheep.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes between \u201ctwo communities\u201d in eastern Chad have killed at least 42 people in a desert region of the vast Sahel country often hit by land disputes, authorities said on Thursday. The public security ministry did not say who was involved in the fighting or how long it went on, but the area regularly sees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/_img\/social-default.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}