18 dead in clashes in Darfur . and an emergency meeting of the Sudanese Security and Defense Council

On Monday, the Al Arabiya correspondent in Sudan reported that the Security and Defense Council would hold an emergency meeting to die Collisions in To discuss West Darfur, in which dozens of dead and wounded were killed.

Eighteen people were killed and 54 injured Tribal clashes According to the Sudan Doctors Committee, it was on Saturday and Sunday in El Geneina, the capital of the state of West Darfur, observed on Monday.

“The committee counted 18 dead and 54 wounded,” said die Branch of the committee in West Darfur in a statement received from the media, in who was advised that “die Wounded and wounded receive medical care at the Al-Geneina Teaching Hospital. The committee confirmed that die Clashes started on Saturday and widened on Sunday morning.

“Today, Monday, we woke up to the sounds of shooting with various types of weapons, and die Clashes are still going on and spreading die most parts of the city, “said Abd al-Rahman Muhammad Ahmad, a resident of the city.

Last January, around 50 people were killed in clashes between groups of Arab tribes and other members of the African Masalit tribe.

The medical committee was referring to an attack on an ambulance carrying some of the victims of the tribal conflicts. “The hospitals are still getting more casualties,” said die Commission.

The committee condemned die Doctors for shooting an ambulance carrying a number of medical personnel.

The western region of Darfur has been suffering from unrest since 2003 when groups of African minorities under the pretext die Region politically and economically against die marginalize the government of Khartoum supported by Arab groups, take up arms.

The intensity of the fighting has in of the region in decreased over the past three years, but tribal conflicts persist die Main threat to die security in of the region.
Finished in late December die joint peace mission of the United Nations and the African Union officially announced its mission in of the region, die it started in 2007.

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