Twenty-five people have been killed and 87 injured since Sunday in clashes between tribes in Port Sudan, Sudan's second city, medical sources told AFP on Tuesday. The clashes continued for the third day in a row despite the dispatch of police reinforcements to stop the fighting, according to witnesses. Local authorities have decided to extend the nighttime curfew to the entire city of some 500,000 residents. It is through this port located in the northeast of the country that most of Sudan's foreign trade transits.
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According to witnesses, members of the Nubian tribe who were returning from the region of South Kordofan where they had participated in a demonstration against the new governor, entered the district of Dar el-Naïm, a stronghold of the tribe on Sunday. of the Beni Amer.
Armed fighting then broke out between the two camps, according to witnesses. At least people were killed and 87 injured in three days, according to a new report from medical sources. Hostility has long reigned between these two tribes.