| Follow up to this story from yesterday |
The armed festivities broke out on Sunday night in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur state, and continued until Monday between Arab and African tribes during which several houses were torched, it said.
At least 48 people were killed
| ...up from yesterday’s more than 20... |
| ...yesterday it was 17 injured plus ten villages burnt, so the new number is not a surprise. |
The Khartoum government imposed a curfew across West Darfur on Monday and has launched an investigation into the bloodshed, while a delegation of bigwigs visited the area.
The government also deployed troops to El Geneina to restore order.
Residents of El Geneina who spoke to AFP by phone said security forces were patrolling main roads in the city, confirming that the fighting had subsided.
According to Sudanese media, the fighting erupted after a row between two people.
| All that because two people called each other names? No wonder Darfur is a mess. |
In January 2016, six people were killed in unrest in West Darfur following violence involving Masalit rustics and members of the Arab Beni Halba tribe.
Those festivities sparked rallies in Khartoum, with protesters marching to the prime minister's office and the justice ministry carrying signs calling for an "end to massacres in the camps of the displaced" and on authorities to punish the culprits.
Darfur -- made up of five states -- spiralled into conflict in 2003.
The Darfur fighting broke out when ethnic minority rebels took up arms against the Arab-dominated government of now ousted president Omar al-Bashir
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to ArabizeDarfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it...
, which they accused of marginalising the region.
The conflict left around 300,000 people dead and displaced 2.5 million others, the UN says.
Bashir, who is behind bars for corruption and awaiting trial on other charges, is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in Darfur.
Sudan said on December 22 it had opened a probe into crimes committed in Darfur.