The death toll from tribal clashes in southeast Sudan’s Blue Nile State in the past week has risen to 105, according to a statement from the state health minister yesterday.
“The death toll, according to the latest emergency committee statistics, has reached 105 dead and 291 injured,” Blue Nile Health Minister Gamal Nasser told AFP by phone from Damazin, the state capital.
The latest clashes took place in the Blue Nile state, on the border with Ethiopia, over a land dispute between the Alberti and Hausa tribes.
The Hausa are one of the largest tribes in Africa, numbering tens of millions of people, and their representatives live on the territory from Senegal to Sudan.
Over the past two days, thousands of people from the Hausa tribe, one of the two sides in the Blue Nile conflict, have marched in several areas of Sudan to seek “retribution for the martyrs.”
The Forces for Freedom and Change, the country’s main opposition coalition, called on Tuesday for “Sudanese One Nation marches in the capital and states…on Sunday, July 24.”
