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Chad Border Violence: Clashes between herders and farmers in southern Chad left at least 22 people dead, authorities said on April 19th accusing rebels based in neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) of igniting the trouble. Farmers from the Kodo community on April 17th attacked Fulani herders camped in the Monts de Lam department, Logon Oriental provincial governor general Ahmat Dari Bazine told AFP. He said the Kodos were Chadian “rebels” based over the border in CAR.The Kodos killed two Fulani herdsmen and wounded six others and lost two of theirs, the general said. They then attacked another village killing four people before gendarmes gave chase. The gendarmes killed 14 of the attackers, he said, leaving a total of at least 22 dead. Hassan Khalil, first deputy prosecutor at Baibokum, capital of the Monts de Lam department, confirmed the fighting and the death toll to AFP.Tension between semi‐nomadic Arab herders and sedentary indigenous farmers is a longstanding problem in central and southern Chad. Farmers accuse herders of pillaging their land with their grazing animals. General Dari Bazine claimed that this was a new strategy however, “deliberately set up by the Kodos to create problems between herders and farmers, between Muslims and Christians”.Chad interim prime minister, Saleh Kebzabo, warned on April 18th, that rebels were using intercommunal conflicts near the border with CAR to instigate an insurgency against the transitional authorities. Defence Minister Gen Daoud Yaya Brahim said that the herders who sparked the clashes were members of a CAR rebel group operating in the border region. Transition President Gen Mahamat Idriss Deby convened a security meeting on April 19th in N'Djamena to discuss the attack.Chad and CAR often accuse each other of harbouring and training rebel groups planning to oust their respective governments. N'Djamena also accused Russian mercenaries from Wagner Group operating in CAR of training and arming rebels based in the southern mountainous regions. The US has offered to help in dismantling the fledging rebellion in the Chad‐CAR border region. (alwihda.com 18/4; © AFP 19/4 2023; BBC Monitoring 20/4)Presidential Pardons: Chad's government said it had released 380 rebels on April 5th after pardoning them from life prison terms handed down over the death of former ruler Idriss Deby Itno. In a televised ceremony at Klessoum jail near the capital N'Djamena 30 men in prison uniforms lined up before government officials who gave them their certificates of release. The other 350 were released in a ceremony that took place beforehand, said Justice Minister Mahamat Ahmat Alhabo, who was in attendance.On March 21st, more than 400 rebels were sentenced in a court at the jail following a mass trial. They were pardoned four days later by junta leader and transitional president General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.The rebels are members of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), the country's biggest armed opposition group. They were captured after FACT launched an offensive on northern Chad from bases in Libya in early 2021. The pardon does not apply to FACT's leader, Mahamat Mahdi Ali, who is on the run, or 55 other rebels who were sentenced, some in absentia. On March 27th, Deby pardoned 259 out of 262 people who had been jailed in December 2022 following clashes between anti‐junta protesters and the security forces in October 2022 (Vol.59, p.23843B). (© AFP 5/4 2023) Rebels on trial p. 23956C http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin Political Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Border Violence: Clashes between herders and farmers in southern Chad left at least 22 people dead, authorities said on April 19th accusing rebels based in neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) of igniting the trouble. Farmers from the Kodo community on April 17th attacked Fulani herders camped in the Monts de Lam department, Logon Oriental provincial governor general Ahmat Dari Bazine told AFP. He said the Kodos were Chadian “rebels” based over the border in CAR.The Kodos killed two Fulani herdsmen and wounded six others and lost two of theirs, the general said. They then attacked another village killing four people before gendarmes gave chase. The gendarmes killed 14 of the attackers, he said, leaving a total of at least 22 dead. Hassan Khalil, first deputy prosecutor at Baibokum, capital of the Monts de Lam department, confirmed the fighting and the death toll to AFP.Tension between semi‐nomadic Arab herders and sedentary indigenous farmers is a longstanding problem in central and southern Chad. Farmers accuse herders of pillaging their land with their grazing animals. General Dari Bazine claimed that this was a new strategy however, “deliberately set up by the Kodos to create problems between herders and farmers, between Muslims and Christians”.Chad interim prime minister, Saleh Kebzabo, warned on April 18th, that rebels were using intercommunal conflicts near the border with CAR to instigate an insurgency against the transitional authorities. Defence Minister Gen Daoud Yaya Brahim said that the herders who sparked the clashes were members of a CAR rebel group operating in the border region. Transition President Gen Mahamat Idriss Deby convened a security meeting on April 19th in N'Djamena to discuss the attack.Chad and CAR often accuse each other of harbouring and training rebel groups planning to oust their respective governments. N'Djamena also accused Russian mercenaries from Wagner Group operating in CAR of training and arming rebels based in the southern mountainous regions. The US has offered to help in dismantling the fledging rebellion in the Chad‐CAR border region. (alwihda.com 18/4; © AFP 19/4 2023; BBC Monitoring 20/4)Presidential Pardons: Chad's government said it had released 380 rebels on April 5th after pardoning them from life prison terms handed down over the death of former ruler Idriss Deby Itno. In a televised ceremony at Klessoum jail near the capital N'Djamena 30 men in prison uniforms lined up before government officials who gave them their certificates of release. The other 350 were released in a ceremony that took place beforehand, said Justice Minister Mahamat Ahmat Alhabo, who was in attendance.On March 21st, more than 400 rebels were sentenced in a court at the jail following a mass trial. They were pardoned four days later by junta leader and transitional president General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.The rebels are members of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), the country's biggest armed opposition group. They were captured after FACT launched an offensive on northern Chad from bases in Libya in early 2021. The pardon does not apply to FACT's leader, Mahamat Mahdi Ali, who is on the run, or 55 other rebels who were sentenced, some in absentia. On March 27th, Deby pardoned 259 out of 262 people who had been jailed in December 2022 following clashes between anti‐junta protesters and the security forces in October 2022 (Vol.59, p.23843B). (© AFP 5/4 2023) Rebels on trial p. 23956C

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Published: May 1, 2023

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