Authorities in West Darfur state in western Sudan today authorized security forces to use force to resolve the issue. A new outbreak of violence between tribes that has left at least 14 dead and dozens injured since yesterday in the Forbrenga region in the south of the region. “The Security Committee has authorized regular forces to decisively fight the outlaws,” West Darfur Governor Jamis Akbar said in a statement.
The move comes a day after West Darfur authorities declared a one-month state of emergency in all towns in the region, following a new episode of violence between an Arab and an African tribe in this troubled region of the African country. .
The balance of the victims since the beginning of the conflict is 14 dead and dozens injured. to count deceased because “there are some deaths that are not counted because their bodies are in the streets and in the middle of the neighborhoods”According to Forbrenga state president Mohamed Hussein Timan. According to the same source, the security forces “who completely attacked more than six neighborhoods” “conflicted with gunmen to prevent them from looting and robbing the market”. In addition, Timan asked for more reinforcements military from the state capital, Geneina, because initially “they were very few compared to the number of fugitives”.
Violence is common among the numerous tribes living in Sudan, although epidemics have increased in recent years amid the severe economic and political crisis caused by the military coup in October 2021 that disrupted a transition to democracy initiated two years ago.
Darfur, which experienced an ethnically overt civil war with more than 300,000 deaths and 1.8 million internally displaced people between 2003 and 2008, has been the scene of frequent bloody conflicts between Arab and African tribes that have ended the lives of hundreds of people in recent years. .