At least 48 people have been killed by “bullets” during new inter-tribal clashes in Darfur, the medical association and the governor of West Darfur province said on Monday. This is the second bloody incident in three weeks in western Sudan.
“The violent incidents started due to conflict and their intensity increased” with the report being “six dead on Saturday and over forty dead on Sunday”, Governor Hamis Abdalla told the French Agency.
For its part, the Committee of Physicians, a medical association that spearheaded the country’s struggle for democracy, spoke of “48 deaths from bullets” in the Creek area.
The clashes, which involved members of Arab tribes and African ethnicities, were so intense that authorities deployed army units in the area.
“Sunday’s clashes lasted from five in the morning until four in the afternoon,” said Governor Abdullah.
On November 17, clashes between breeders accused of stealing camels claimed the lives of 50 people in episodes in which 594 houses were set on fire, according to the UN. More than 6,600 people have been displaced, a third of whom have fled to neighboring Chad, the source added.
Access to West Sudan is “limited” at a time when many residents are in need of “food, water, shelter and health services”, the UN said.
In Darfur, a vast area that is often torn apart by unrest, mainly due to land disputes and access to water, a long war broke out in 2003 with at least 300,000 dead and 2.5 million displaced people and refugees, according to the United Nations.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) wants to try former ousted dictator Omar El Bashir, who was ousted in 2019, for “genocide” and crimes against humanity during the armed conflict in Darfur.
The Janjaweed Arab militia, which has ordered the deployment of Bashir’s regime against various tribes in Darfur, has also been accused of “national cleansing” as well as systematic rape.
Since then, however, thousands of them have joined General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo’s Rapid Reaction Force (SDF), the second-highest-ranking member of Sudan’s transitional government.
In addition, several former leaders of Darfur rebel organizations have joined the new government following the overthrow of Bashir following the signing of a peace agreement with Khartoum in October 2020.
Nevertheless in 2021, as the military and civilian staff of the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force withdrew, inter-tribal clashes and armed group attacks claimed the lives of hundreds of people, mostly in West Darfur.
SOURCE: AMPE
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