DARFUR CLASHES KILL 45

Heavy fighting between rival groups in Sudan’s Darfur region has left 45 people dead in the latest ethnic violence.

The clashes were between the ethnic Africa Fallata people and an Arab tribe in villages outside Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state.

“Fifteen people were killed in the fighting between the Fallata and Rizeigat tribes on Tuesday and 30 were killed on Wednesday,” the security committee of South Darfur state, a local government body, said in a statement.

Women and children were among the dead, and a medical source said about 20 wounded, some of them critically, were taken to hospital.

Earlier this month, separate clashes broke out among herders and farmers in the rugged mountainous region of Jebel Moon in West Darfur, leaving at least 35 people killed and many injured.