July 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –
There are already 31 deaths from the conflict unleashed this week between two communities in the Sudanese state of Blue Nile, bordering Ethiopia, according to a new balance announced this Saturday by local authorities.
To the death toll must be added at least 39 injured during the clashes that took place from Monday to Friday between the Hausa and Barti tribes, in the municipality of Qissan for the possession of some land.
The governor of the region, Ahmed al Omda, has ordered this Friday the deployment of troops and rescinded the right to assembly for an entire month, reports the ‘Sudan Akhbar’.
The Region’s Security committee has called on citizens to abide by its decisions and cooperate with the security services to maintain security, arrest fugitives and perpetrators, and bring them to justice.
The Qissan region, and the Blue Nile state in general, has been the scene of conflict since 1986. There, the guerrillas have been a serious problem for the authorities for decades, both for the deposed dictator Omar al Bashir and for the military junta. who now controls the country.
The October 2021 coup d’état led by Abdelfata al-Burhan led to the removal of the civilian prime minister, Abdalá Hamdok, although international pressure forced an agreement to reinstate him in office in November, causing him to lose support among the armed forces. opponents and revolutionaries.
However, Hamdok presented his resignation in January in protest against the repression of the mobilizations and after the military authorities expelled various civil groups from the Executive, arguing that they were acting against the interests of the State.
The transitional authorities were established after an agreement between the previous military junta, which emerged after the 2019 coup against Omar Hassan al Bashir, and various civil organizations and opposition political formations. This government had initiated a battery of social and economic reforms and has reached a peace agreement with major rebel groups in Darfur and other areas of the country.
The security vacuum created by the political crisis has made possible a new rise in tribal violence in the area, fueled by the existence of the Renaissance Dam, the gigantic infrastructure project in Ethiopia that Sudan has denounced as an attempt to exploit.
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