Seven Sudanese have been killed in fresh tribal clashes in Sudan's Blue Nile state, despite a truce reached after similar bloody fighting in late July, the official Suna agency reported Friday. However, "tribal clashes resumed on Thursday" and "seven people were killed and 23 wounded", notably in al-Roseires, where rival tribes had set fire to each other's shops in July, the Sudanese agency Suna reported, without specifying whether the dead were civilians or fighters. Violence in Sudan forces vendors to close businesses https://t.co/rhbJ4FUQ9Q — africanews 😷 (@africanews) August 26, 2022Mohammed Mokhtar, a resident, told AFP "shooting and house burning have been taking place since (Friday) morning" not far from al-Roseires. Ancestral custom prohibits the Hausa, who were the last to arrive on the Blue Nile, from owning land, which they dispute. Several injured and at least 65 dead in tribal clashes in Southern Sudan https://t.co/DQ6ZhtL58B — africanews 😷 (@africanews) July 18, 2022Their clashes forced 31,000 people to move, many of whom are still living in makeshift camps or schools.

Source: Ethiopian News September 02, 2022 22:17 UTC