KHARTOUM: More than 130 people have been killed in the latest outbreak of tribal fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region, a tribal leader said yesterday.
“Fighting was going on until last night and from our side we have 37 dead,” said the leader of the Beni Halba tribe, who claimed that more than 100 members of the rival Gimir group were also killed.
The Beni Halba leader, who declined to be named, said a land dispute caused the fighting in Edd Al-Fursan, about 100 km southwest of the South Darfur state capital Nyala.
“This is our land and those people are living on it,” he said.
Competition for resources, from water to gold, is a key driver of conflict in Darfur, where ethnic rebels in Sudan’s far-western region rose up against the Arab-dominated Khartoum government in 2003.
Over 130 die in Darfur tribal clashes
