Death toll from week of clashes in Darfur to 125, says UN

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14th Jun, 2022. 02:51 pm
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The death toll from tribal clashes in Sudan’s Darfur area over the past week has risen to at least 125.
At least 25 villages have been attacked, plundered, and torched, and at least 50,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes.

The UN reported Tuesday that the death toll from tribal clashes in Sudan’s Darfur area over the past week has risen to at least 125.

Following a land dispute between Arab and African tribes in the town of Kulbus in West Darfur province, local Arab militias attacked various villages in the vicinity, resulting in the latest outbreak of violence in the war-torn region.

Over 100 African Gimir tribal members and 25 Arabs were among the dead, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. According to the report, more than 130 people, largely Africans, were injured in the clashes.

As per OCHA, at least 25 villages in the Kulbus area have been attacked, plundered, and torched, and at least 50,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes in West Darfur and neighbouring North Darfur province, where the clashes have extended.

The clashes were the latest in a series of tribal clashes in Darfur. Sudan is now immersed in a bigger crisis following an October military coup, which threw the country’s democratic transition into disarray after a popular revolt forced the ouster of longtime despot Omar Al-Bashir in April 2019.

Death toll from week of clashes in Darfur to 125, says UN

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