On 30 May, Chad’s Minister of Defence, General Daoud Yaya Brahim, reported that approximately 100 people have been killed and 40 injured during clashes in the Kouri Bougoudi gold mining area on the Chadian-Libyan border. Skirmishes in Kouri Bougoudi first broke out on 23 May when, according to General Brahim, a dispute between two people ‘degenerated’. General Brahim claimed that Mauritanians and Libyans were involved in the clashes. The Chadian government deployed a military force to intervene.
