{"id":117674,"date":"2021-04-07T15:06:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T07:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117674"},"modified":"2021-04-07T15:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T07:06:04","slug":"death-toll-from-clashes-in-sudans-west-darfur-climbs-to-56-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117674","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from clashes in Sudan&#8217;s West Darfur climbs to 56: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img src=\"https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/Media\/News\/2021\/4\/6\/2021-637533266457704315-770.jpg\" alt=\"Sudan \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Protesters attend a rally calling for a stop to killing in Darfur <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KHARTOUM, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The death toll from days of tribal clashes in Sudan&#8217;s West Darfur has risen to 56, with 132 wounded, the United Nations and a local doctors committee said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bloodshed is the latest in a resurgence of violence in the Darfur region since the signing of a peace agreement late last year and the withdrawal of UN\u00a0peacekeepers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government declared a state of emergency in the state on Monday after clashes beginning on Saturday in the state capital El Geneina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudan&#8217;s Cabinet said in a statement that the interior minister would be heading to El Geneina soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to UN&nbsp;reports, heavy weaponry and rocket-propelled grenades have been used in the violence between members of the Masalit tribe and members of Arab tribes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One doctor said he had treated more than 40 people injured on Tuesday, although his hospital had been attacked several times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Everybody has a weapon, and if it wasn&#8217;t expensive I would get one too,&#8221; he added, saying that the situation had worsened on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The General Coordinating Committee for Refugee and Internally Displaced Camps said in a statement that the Abu Zar camp had been burned down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 3,800 people have fled their neighbourhoods, some to neighbouring Chad, a UN&nbsp;report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 108,000 people had already been displaced from the nearby Kreinding refugee camp into El Geneina following similar clashes in January&nbsp;in which 129 people died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brokering lasting peace in Darfur and other parts of Sudan has been one of the main challenges facing the authorities since the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir as president in April 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, violence there has been on the rise in recent months, despite the signing of a peace deal with some rebel groups that had fought Bashir last year. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters attend a rally calling for a stop to killing in Darfur KHARTOUM, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The death toll from days of tribal clashes in Sudan&#8217;s West Darfur has risen to 56, with 132 wounded, the United Nations and a local doctors committee said. The bloodshed is the latest in a resurgence of violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}