One farmer dead, four injured in assaults by herdsmen in West and Central Darfur

Herdsmen reportedly shot and killed a Murnei camp resident when he protested against the grazing of their livestock on his farmland in West Darfur. A relative of the deceased told Radio Dabanga that on Tuesday a number of herders “armed by the government” released their camels and cattle on the farmland of Abdallah Abakar Adam. When he resisted, they opened fire on him and killed him on the spot. The relative called on Unamid to run patrols for the protection of the displaced. Azum On the same day, 19 November, a farmer from Wadi Um Shalaya, Azum locality in Central Darfur reported to Radio Dabanga that armed herdsmen wanted to graze their camels and cattle on their farmlands. The farmers protested upon which the herders whipped them and beat them severely with batons.Two men (one of them 70 years old) and two women were seriously injured. File photo: Armed herdsmen Related: Darfur farmers demand protection against herdsmen (12 November 2013)Two farmers injured by herders in Central Darfur (12 November 2013)Herders torch crops, militia assaults farmers in West Darfur (23 October 2013)Darfur farmers: ‘armed herdsmen grazing ahead of schedule’ (15 October 2013)Farmers in four Darfur states threatened by ‘armed herders’ (4 October 2013)