More than 100 people have been slain in fighting between two clans in Sudan’s oil-rich West Kordofan state, tribal leaders say.
The clashes between two sub-groups of the Misseriya tribe in al-Quwik area claimed 133 lives, the head of the Misseriya tribe, Mokhtar Babo Nimir, said on Thursday.
Babo Nimir did not give the exact number of the injured people; however, he said that the figure was “high”.A second tribal leader in the area said the clashes between Zioud and the Awlad Amran groups were still raging on Thursday.
“Until this evening, there are no government troops on the ground to separate the fighters and more than 100 have been killed from both sides,” he added.
The Misseriya is one of Arab tribes in the Kordofan region with a large population of nomadic cattlemen.
Sudan’s West Kordofan, which neighbors the Darfur region, has seen inter-communal clashes in the past amid Sudan’s deteriorating economic situation.
Two sub-groups of the Misseriya tribe, namely the Zurug and Awlad Amran clans, engaged in fighting near an oil-drilling site in West Kordofan over a land dispute, state-linked media reported.
The fighting “continued all day because of the land dispute near the oil field,” Mohammed Omer Al-Ansari, a tribal leader, said.
The fighting occurred about one month after the same groups clashed in the area. A tribal source said in early June that at least 41 people died in the clashes back then.
In a 2012 report, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Sudan’s declining economy had resulted in an increasingly high crime rate and inter-communal clashes over the past two years.
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