Between 1980 and 1982, as part of President Barre’s “scorched earth” policy, government troops demolish water-points and berkads (catchments) in many of the towns and villages of Mudug and neighboring Nugal.
January 2002. About 40 people are killed and 60 wounded in inter-clan fighting in the Mudug region of central Somalia. The violence is sparked by revenge killings over the deaths of eight fisherman, but a local elder, Muhammad Salad Du’ale, attributes the ongoing violence to the scarcity of water and grazing.
Two days of heavy fighting in Mudug region of Somalia leave at least 43 people dead and over 90 injured. The fighting breaks out between the Sa’ad, Habar Gedir subclan and the Dir, and is concentrated in and around the villages of Towfiq and Awle, some 200 km east of Galkayo. As with the 2002 events, the clashes are triggered by revenge killings but the ensuing escalation of violence is also attributed to disagreements over water and grazing in the…
Murusade subclan and Duduble subclan clash over a water well, with 23 fatalities. Separately, a dispute between the Dir and Marehan clans over control of water and grazing lands in Heraale leads to a death in October.
Two wells are attacked by militia thought to be part of Al-Shaabab.
Ten people who had been uprooted from their homes by Boko Haram are arrested when protesting for better water, food, and healthcare at their temporary camps in Konduga, Borno, Nigeria.
Violence, including several deaths, occurs during disputes over access to water in the poorest slums around Nairobi, Kenya.
The Ethiopian government says that regional drought worsens traditional conflicts at watering points and over access to pasture. The tensions are heightened by the presence of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), an Ethiopian armed opposition group said to be operating from Kenyan territory near the common border.
The water well for a village in the Bay region is destroyed by an attack attributed to Al-Shabaab.
Levees are destroyed along the Shebelle River in Somalia, in an attempt, sources claim, to make roads unusable by military forces. The attack is attributed to Al-Shabaab.