A fresh wave of violence over water access near the Sudanese border in eastern Chad has left three people dead.
Monday’s clashes followed deadly Saturday fighting between Tama and Zaghawa communities over a well near Sudanese border, killing 42 people.
Three people were killed and ten others wounded in renewed armed clashes, said state official Brahim Issa Galmaye.
Latest violence erupted in Guereda sub-prefecture, in a different rural sector of same border region.
Several ministers, senior officials and army chief deployed area after clashes began on Sunday.
President Mahamat Idriss Deby, of Zaghawa ancestry through his father, leads nation often strained by ethnic tensions.
Chad frequently witnesses ethnic clashes over land, livestock and water, especially in rural eastern areas near Sudan.
International Crisis Group estimates more than 1,000 deaths and over 2,000 injuries in herder-farmer conflicts since 2021.
Tensions continue to simmer like a dry wind across eastern Chad, where scarce water fuels recurring cycles of violence.
