Violences intercommunautaires au Ghana : 31 morts, 48.000 déplacés
The National Disaster Management Agency told AFP that around 48,000 people, mostly women and children, had been forced to leave their homes due to the violence, which stems from a land dispute.
"However, for the past five days, we have not had any gunshots, killings or attacks," said Zakaria Mahama, the agency's regional director, adding that the displaced had already begun returning home.
According to Interior Minister Mubarak Muntaka, speaking on local radio, 31 people were killed and 13,253 Ghanaians fled to neighboring Ivory Coast.
Interviewed by AFP, an Ivorian official confirmed this figure. Philippe Hien, president of the Bounkani regional council, reported their arrival "in 17 villages" near the border, in an Ivorian region that already hosts nearly 30,000 refugees from Burkina Faso.
The violence began on August 24 in the village of Gbiniyiri (Savanes region), near the Ivorian border, over a land dispute involving a dozen local communities.
The conflict began with the sale by a local chief of land to a private developer, without the consent of the affected community.
When the developer tried to access the land to begin work, the local population resisted violently, even setting fire to the palace of the chief who had initiated the sale.
According to Minister Muntaka, more than 700 soldiers and police officers have been deployed in recent days and a curfew has been imposed.
An official in the Savanes region, Salisu Bi-Awuribe, said calm was gradually returning, with traditional leaders and community elders working with security agencies to prevent further clashes.
Authorities fear food shortages after families abandoned farms and livestock in their exodus. An investigative committee has been set up to examine the causes of the violence and work towards reconciliation.
Intercommunal land conflicts and disputes related to local chieftaincy are recurrent in northern Ghana, although displacements of this magnitude are rare.
AFP
Commentaires (7)
Fallait mentionner les ethnies concernés ', si c'était des fulbés on verra les haineux de tous les bords pour nous insulter
D’habitude c’est vous parce que vous aimez trop le communautarisme et vous ne restez pas dans votre zone raison pour laquelle vous êtes toujours dans des problèmes intercommunautaires. Essayez de respecter les recommandations de votre religion l’islam d’abord. Vous n’aurez plus jamais de problème
C'est pas des fulbés ...,C'est la zone nord forester habitée la plupart par des pygmées ..
il vous faut un infographe, je vous le dit depuis tres lontemps.
A coup sûr, toit ceci est de la faute des autorités étatiques.
Je suis suis sûre que les colons y sont mêlés de loin
C'est Agence France Presse (AFP) qui donne la nouvelle, Macron tenterait de déstabiliser le Ghana ?
Il est capable de tout
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