Amid the violent tribal tension and fighting witnessed by the Sudanese state a few days ago, large groups of demonstrators stormed the headquarters of the Blue Nile Government Secretariat.
The journalist for Al-Arabiya Al-Hadath also claimed that on Sunday afternoon, enraged protestors set fire to the headquarters.
While Ahmed Al-Omda, the governor of the region, was called into question, the head of the Civil Society Initiative in the Blue Nile State, Mohamed Al-Tayeb, told the local newspaper Al-Sudani that a group of citizens stormed the fourth division infantry’s Brazin headquarters after giving the military division 48 hours to respond.
Last Friday, the mayor issued a decree imposing a state of emergency throughout the region for 30 days after the renewed violence and tribal clashes that resulted in 220 people.
Additionally, he gave instructions to security personnel to “intervene with all capabilities at their disposal to end tribal conflict and impose the prestige of the state.”
The decree “granted these officials the complete constitutional and legal rights to take appropriate steps according to the circumstances of the situation, including police, intelligence leaders, and rapid support forces in the region.
Fath Al-Rahman Bakhit, Director General of the Ministry of Health in the Blue Nile, reported that 220 individuals died in the most recent round of fighting that broke out on Wednesday and Thursday.
Early this month (October 2022) saw a resurgence of warfare in the neighbouring states of Ethiopia and southern Sudan as a result of a land dispute that resulted in brutal clashes between the Hausa tribe from West Africa and the “Berta” people.
assaulting a government building in the Blue Nile outraged and setting the building on fire
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