Militia-like movements appear in Chad amid surge in intercommunal violence

According to France 24, Chad is seeing a sharp rise in intercommunal violence, with authorities flagging five separate incidents in the past month alone and more than three hundred people killed over the past two years. The broader picture is grimmer: the United Nations warns that violence is escalating across the entire Lake Chad basin, where five thousand seven hundred people have been killed since November. The bloodshed has also driven thousands from their homes, and France 24 reports that militia-like movements are now emerging in response.

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