KHARTOUM: Tribal fighting in Sudan’s Blue Nile state has forced thousands of people from their homes after violence broke out earlier in July over a land dispute between the Birta and Hausa ethnic groups.
The clashes in the state bordering South Sudan and Ethiopia have resulted in a spiralling humanitarian crisis, as aid organisations await the cessation of the hostilities to deliver assistance. Authorities have said that at least 105 people have been killed.
Sara Mohammed said she fled al-Damazin as soon as she heard reports of tribal fighting and headed to the neighbouring Sennar state.
“It took us more than six hours of walking to get here and now we have nothing except what we were given by the host communities,” she said. While some have managed to find refuge elsewhere, thousands of people are displaced within the Blue Nile state itself. “I escaped with nothing except the clothes I’m wearing,” Anwar Mohammed told media. –Agencies
