July 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The balance of victims due to the recent inter-community clashes in the Sudanese region of Blue Nile has risen to about 80 dead and 200 injured, as confirmed by the authorities of the African country.
The Sudanese Ministry of Health has indicated in a message on its account on the social network Facebook that so far 79 deaths and 199 injuries have been confirmed, before announcing the shipment of medical equipment and supplies to care for the victims.
Thus, he pointed out that during the day on Monday a plane was sent to the area with eleven specialists, including experts in forensic medicine, as well as five tons of medicine and 50 aid kits to address the situation.
Clashes broke out late last week between members of the Berta community and Hausa communities, a situation that led the regional governor, Ahmed al-Omda, to impose a curfew to try to contain the fighting.
Al Omda has also promised to hold those responsible to account and has said that the authorities will actively work to restore order and peaceful coexistence in the region, as reported by the Sudanese news portal Sudan Tribune.
For its part, the High Council of the Native Administration issued a statement on Monday announcing the dispatch of a high-ranking delegation to try to “calm the situation” in Blue Nile, before showing its “concern” about the incidents.
The agency also called on the warring parties to “turn to wisdom and reason to end hostilities, tribal fighting and hate speech,” according to the Sudanese state news agency SUNA. Along these lines, he called on the federal and regional governments to expand their efforts to stop these incidents and asked the “benevolent people” of Sudan to help support those affected by these clashes.
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 dismissal of the civilian prime minister, Abdalá Hamdok, although international pressure forced an agreement to reinstate him in office in November, although he resigned in January in protest at the violent repression of protests against the military authorities.
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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