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Two women in the camp for internally displaced persons in El Geneina carry a sack with aids (symbolic picture)
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In the Sudanese crisis region of Darfur, more than 80 people were killed in violent clashes between members of different ethnic groups.
The Sudanese medical committee said there were 83 fatalities and 160 injured.
According to the state news agency Suna, the fighting in El Geneina, the capital of the state of West Darfur, continued on Sunday.
Violence broke out in El Geneina on Friday when an Arab man was stabbed to death in a market in the Krinding camp for internally displaced people belonging to the Massalit ethnic group.
On Saturday, the survivors of the dead attacked the camp and burned most of the houses in it, as AP learned from an aid organization.
The authorities imposed a curfew in the state.
The government in Khartoum sent a delegation to the region to try to resolve the conflict.
In 2003, a bloody conflict between rebel groups and the army began in Darfur under the then President Omar al-Bashir, which, according to UN estimates, killed around 300,000 people.
2.5 million people have been displaced.
For a number of years, the region in western Sudan has been relatively calm.
Occasionally, however, clashes occur between rival ethnic groups and between farmers and Arab nomads, which are often sparked off by arguments about the use of land and water.
The Unamid peace mission, launched in 2007 by the UN and the African Union, was terminated at the end of December after 13 years at the request of the Sudanese government.
The human rights organization Amnesty International, however, had called for the mission to be extended and warned of a "security vacuum".
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