Clashes Between Chad Gold Miners Leave 100 Dead

Clashes Between Chad Gold Miners Leave 100 Dead

Clashes Between Chad Gold Miners Leave 100 Dead

Clashes Between Chad Gold Miners Leave 100 Dead   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. On Wednesday, Communication Minister Abderaman Koulamallah…
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