Numerous people have died over the previous two days as a result of tribal fighting between the Al-Hawsa tribe and the Al-Fung tribes group in the Wad Al-Mahi region of the state of Blue Nile, southern Sudan.
A medical source verified to AFP that 150 people were murdered and 86 others were injured as fighting broke out on Wednesday, contradicting Sudanese officials who were quoted by the Associated Press but who were not identified after 170 people were slain.
Abbas Moussa, director of Wad Al -Mahi Hospital, told Agence France -Presse: “Emsey (Wednesday) and today (Thursday) 150 people were killed, between children, women, elders and youth, and most of them died as a result of the burning, and 86 others were wounded. ”
According to the UN, 13 people were murdered in clashes last week between members of the Hawsa tribe and other tribes in the town of Wad Al-Mahi, east of the city of Al-Rusiris.
On Wednesday, a medical source stated: “We got 10 bodies in Wad Al-Mahi Hospital.” “Five bodies and 10 wounded” were said to have arrived at Al-Roseris Hospital, according to another source at the facility.
One of the Hawsa tribe’s chiefs, for his part, claimed that despite the deployment of significant security reinforcements in the area, the violence had resumed, adding: “Weapons were used and homes were set on fire.
” An eyewitness confirmed that violent clashes occurred, which called on the Sudanese authorities on Monday to impose a curfew at night in Wad Al -Mahi.
Others have also stated that hundreds of protesters who had gathered in the Blue Nile city of Damazin to oppose tribal violence had left.
Eddie Row, the assistant official for Sudan at the UN, expressed his “grave worry” over the continued fighting in Massam and said that since the most recent unrest began on October 13, “170 people have been murdered and 327 others have been injured.”
The conflict on the ground is what sparked the combat, according to the United Nations.
In Sudan, one of the poorest nations in the world, where agriculture and livestock account for 43% of jobs and 30% of GDP, land exploitation is a very sensitive topic.
The obsession is the last of the tribes that settled in the Blue Nile, and the inherited traditions prohibit the possession of its members to the Earth, but the tribe rejects this custom.
According to the United Nations, fighting between the African Hausa tribe and other tribes between July and early October of last year resulted in at least 149 fatalities, hundreds of injuries, and 65,000 people being displaced.
With the resumption of tribal conflict in Sudan’s Blue Nile, 150 people were slain.
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