45 Sudanese Villages Reported Gutted During Tribal Clashes
Fighting between rival tribes over water and grazing left more than 100 people dead and about 45 villages gutted in western Sudan, a newspaper reported Saturday.
The clashes and the casualties in west Darfur state occurred during the past four weeks, Mohamed Salih Sanousi, a Darfur minister, said Friday in the state capital, Genaina. His comments were reported by the Alwan newspaper.
The underdeveloped tribal area near the border with Chad is not involved in the insurgency by Christian separatists in the south, where major food shortages have been reported.
A British charity on Saturday said about 350,000 people in southern Sudan cannot survive until the next harvest without help.
“Seed supplies are urgently required to capitalize on the current planting season,” Save the Children said at a briefing in Nairobi, Kenya. “Seeds will have to be supplied by the end of May to be in time for the September harvest.”
Recently displaced people were trekking 50 to 150 miles in scorching heat to reach government-held towns where food was available.
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