Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

48 killed in clashes in Sudan’s Darfur region

- Associated Press

KHARTOUM: Tribal clashes in Sudan’s restive Darfur region killed at least 48 people last week, a refugee official said on Wednesday, the latest round of inter-communal violence to hit Sudan’s neglected peripherie­s.

The fighting is the first reported large-scale tribal violence in Darfur since August - even as eruptions of tribal clashes over the past months have killed more than 350 people in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile province.

The clashes between the Misseriya and the Rezeigat tribesmen erupted near the village of Juguma in Central Darfur last week, following a robbery, according to the UN Office for the Coordinati­on of Humanitari­an Affairs (OCHA). Some 24 of the victims were killed on Saturday after gunmen opened fire on people trying to mediate the conflict, OCHA said.

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