Sudan: more than a hundred people killed in violence in Darfur
Men in a camp for displaced people in El-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur (illustrative image) ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP
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At least 160 people were killed on Sunday April 24 in violence in Darfur, one of the heaviest tolls in this region of western Sudan ravaged for decades by war, reports an NGO.
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The violence began in Krink, 80 km from El-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, on Friday April 22, a day during which eight other people had already been killed, said Adam Regal, spokesman for the General Coordination for Refugees and displaced from Darfur.
According to him, the balance sheet is likely to increase when there are at least 46 injured.
A local Massalit tribesman reported seeing dead bodies in several villages in the Krink sector, as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urged authorities to ensure the safe transport of the injured to hospitals in the area. region.
According to the General Coordination, the violence began when armed fighters from Arab tribes attacked Massalit villages, an ethnic minority, in retaliation for the death Thursday of two members of their tribes.
Videos and photos posted online showed columns of black smoke billowing from homes as well as scorched patches of earth where traditional burnt huts had previously stood.
The authenticity of these images could not be independently verified.
Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds of homes burned down, reports the UN, during several episodes of violence in Darfur in recent months, favored according to experts by the security vacuum created by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's coup. in Khartoum in October.
Clashes between Arab herders and African farmers over territorial disputes or access to water had already caused the death of nearly 250 people from October to December in Darfur, according to a union of pro-democracy doctors.
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