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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…