At least 25 people died and another 22 were injured after inter-community clashes recorded over the weekend on the border between the Hadjer-Lamis and Bahr El-Ghazal provinces, in the central-west of the country, Chadian authorities confirmed.

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According to a statement from Chad’s Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization reported this Sunday by local media, authorities arrested 39 people related to the events and sent them to N’Djamena, the capital, for prosecution.

“The authorities intend to fully clarify these acts of violence, determine responsibilities and allow justice to take its course,” the text says, without specifying the causes of this outbreak of violence.

Given this situation, a government delegation led by the Minister of Public Security and Immigration, General Ali Ahmat Aghabach, traveled on Saturday to the Ngoura department, in Hadjer-Lamis province.

Un nouveau conflit intercommunautaire a éclaté à Ngoura, dans la province du Hadjer-Lamis. Selon les premières informations, plusieurs personnes auraient perdu la vie lors de ces affrontements. Cette nouvelle flambée de violences vient raviver le douloureux dossier des conflits… pic.twitter.com/RZ2DVExUNS

— Le N’Djam Post (@LeNdjam_Post) October 30, 2026

“This initiative is part of the measures adopted by the Government to restore calm, protect the population and prevent a new escalation, while promoting dialogue between communities with a view to a lasting return to peace,” the ministry added.

Several areas of Chad are often the scene of disputes between herders and farmers over access to farmland and pastures, which have intensified in recent years.

Chad is one of Africa’s main livestock producers, with extensive livestock farming based on transhumance – herding in motion – which requires moving animals in search of water and pastures.

The strong pressure on resources has deteriorated relations between nomadic Muslim herders and sedentary farmers, mostly Christians or animists, with frequent clashes in the south of the country and in other fertile areas of its territory.

Farmers accuse herders of plundering their fields by grazing their animals or settling on lands they consider their own.

In addition, the east of the country has become a scene of frequent clashes between herders and rustlers from Sudan, aggravated by the outbreak of civil war in that country in April 2023.

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