Two Killed, 1,200 Displaced in Ethnic Clashes in North

Two people have been injured following exchange of gunfire between supporters of the Andani and Abudu gates to Ya-Na Skin of the Dagbon Traditional Area.

The District Chief Executive Of Yendi, Mr Mohammed Habibu Tijani Told the Ghana News Agency in a telephone interview that the two have been admitted to the Yendi Government Hospital. He said the two sides exchanged fire for about five minutes. Mr Tijani said he was going round the town to access the situation adding that no one had been arrest yet.

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At least 1,200 people were displaced following weekend clashes between two ethnic groups at Dunglaar-Gberick, Bunkurugu-Yunyoo constituency, in Ghana's Northern Region, state-owned media reported.
The fighting over turf between the Japaak and Tanmon, on the one hand, and the Pulis on the other, resulted in two deaths. A third burn victim was receiving medical care, the Daily Graphic, an Accra daily, reported. It quoted the Member of Parliament for the area, Berrick Numburr, as saying the death toll could rise. He also said that some 36 homes, foodstuffs and two corn mills were burnt down and 60 cows stolen during the violence that resulted when the Pulis, who were expelled from the area during fighting in 2000, returned to rebuild their homes.
"The fighting has been kept in check by beefing up security," Mawusi Afele, an editor with the state-owned Ghana News Agency, told IRIN on Tuesday.