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Fighting pauses in Sudan, death toll reaches 87

Fighting pauses in Sudan, death toll reaches 87

AN uneasy calm was restored to the capital of Sudan's West Darfur yesterday, residents said, after five days of fighting between Arab and Masalit tribesmen in which scores of people were killed. A local doctors committee said 87 people had been killed and 191 injured since Saturday in the fighting in the city, El Geneina. The violence is a new flare-up of a conflict that saw deadly clashes earlier this year and in 2019, amid deteriorating security across Darfur. Residents told Reuters the streets had finally grown quieter, with government troops deployed for the first time since a state of…
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