Armed confrontations broke out by the beginning of the week between tribes from Bani Omar and Gharadhan districts, the first of which is in Ibb Governorate and is 193 km south of Sana’a. The second is administratively affiliated to the governorate of Dhamar and is 100 km south of Sana’a. The news stated that fierce clashes were renewed last Saturday when some armed tribesmen from Bani Omar made an ambush in the road linking the two districts against a Garadhan car to retaliate the killing of two of their fellows in last week’s clashes. The ambush destroyed a car. It also killed two children and a woman who were inside, others received bad injuries. 30 people have been killed and 100 injured from both sides in the tribal war, which erupted in March 2001between the two neighboring districts. The crisis is attributed to an old dispute over agricultural lands and artesian wells compelling the two parties to desert their farms.