News from Al-Madinah: The government asked aid agencies to assist in burying the remains as the number of individuals killed in ethnic warfare between the Hosa and Birta ethnic groups in southern Sudan climbed to 200. The fighting was caused by disagreements over lands.
After proclaiming a state of emergency in the state for a while due to tribal warfare, Ahmed Al-Omda Badi, the governor of the Blue Nile State, gave the security forces complete authority to “end” the fighting.
Al-Mahi Abdulaziz Al-Amin, the executive director of the local council in the Wad area, stated that “approximately 200 people were killed” in three villages, and some dead had not yet been buried.
Since Monday, there has been a curfew in effect as a result of 13 people being killed, according to the United Nations, in conflicts between Hausa tribe members and members of another tribe. But the clashes were renewed despite the security spread.
Hundreds of Thursday in Damazin, the capital of the Blue Nile State, demonstrated; In protest against the violence, and other demonstrators demanded the departure of the governor Badi, considering that he was unable to protect the population, according to “Arabi 21”.
According to the UN, between July and early October, at least 149 people were murdered and 65,000 were displaced in the Blue Nile.
Members of the Hausa tribe protested throughout Sudan at the start of the unrest against what they perceived to be discrimination against them due to tribal customs that forbade them from owning land in the Blue Nile under the guise that they were the last tribes to establish in the state.
In Sudan, one of the world’s poorest nations, where agriculture and livestock account for 40% of jobs and 30% of GDP, land exploitation is a very sensitive topic.
Tribal conflicts in Sudan escalated due to the security vacuum, especially after ending the mission of the United Nations peacekeeping force in the region, following the signing of a peace agreement between armed factions and the central government in 2020.
And when Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, the army commander, ousted his civilian partners from the agreed-upon transitional rule after the collapse of former President Omar al-Bashir in 2019, things only got worse following the coup of October 25th, 2017.
A tribal battle in West Kordofan last week resulted in 19 fatalities and 34 injuries (south).
According to figures from the United Nations, 600 people have died and more than 210,000 have been displaced in Sudan due to tribal clashes since January.
Arab 21.
200 ethnic fighters clashed in Sudan’s Blue Nile state.
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