Villages turned to ashes, panic scenes: more than 30,000 people have fled the northern tip of Cameroon since Sunday, plagued by inter-communal violence that has killed at least 22 people, and taken refuge in neighboring Chad.
As of Sunday, clashes between fishermen and shepherds in Logone-Chari County have killed at least 22 people and seriously injured 30 others, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which has expressed “concern” and called for immediate action. an end to the violence “.
Several thousand people fled into Cameroon and “more than 30,000 fled to neighboring Chad,” according to the HCR.
Clashes erupted Sunday in the village of Ulumsa, in the northern tip of Cameroon, “following a clash between shepherds, fishermen and farmers” over water management and use, according to the UN agency. “The violence then spread to neighboring villages.”
“Ten villages were set on fire and reduced to ashes,” according to the UNHCR.
Violent clashes continued Wednesday in Kuseri, a city of 200,000. The animal market burned down during the conflict. In Kuseri, fishermen “attacked with arrows and the Arab shepherds reacted,” explained a local NGO official who asked not to be named.
The situation remains “unstable” in the northern tip of Cameroon, the UN says.
At least 10,000 people have fled the city and taken refuge in Chad’s capital, Dzamena, on the other side of the Chari River, according to the UNHCR.
The majority of the refugees are women, some of them pregnant, and children.
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