In Southern Sudan UN says renewed tribal clashes kill 13

 Since last week renewed tribal clashes in southern Sudan have killed at least 13 people and injured more than two dozen others in the latest violence to hit the chaotic nation in recent months, the U.N. said Monday.

The main factions of the sprawling pro-democracy movement have made progress in internationally backed talks and the violence in the Blue Nile province came as the country’s ruling generals. The aim found a way of military coup that plunged Sudan into worsening turmoil Out of last year’s discussions. 

According to the U.N. Office on Thursday over a land dispute in the Wad al-Mahi District between the Hausa and Birta ethnic groups began for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs clashes. 

It said before subsiding Sunday the fighting, which lasted for four days, displaced at least 1,200 people who were taking refuge in schools there.

For its residents to get their daily needs met it said Government offices and the town’s market were closed, making it difficult. On people’s movements authorities also imposed restrictions in the area amid fears of revenge attacks.

To humanitarian agencies The Hausa, from the area, which has been inaccessible, the U.N. migration agency said the Jabalaween tribe, who are on the side of Brita group, expelled their rivals.

In mid-July the fighting between the two tribes originally began. As of Oct. 6, according to OCHA a total of 149 people were killed and 124 others were wounded.

To protest the government’s lack of response to the clashes in other provinces where thousands, mostly Hausa, the fighting in the Blue Nile triggered violent protests took to the streets.

To hit Sudan it is the latest tribal violence, which is home to several long-running ethnic conflicts. Since the military took over the government in a coup last year the country was already in turmoil.

After nearly three decades of repressive rule by autocrat Omar al-Bashir the military’s takeover removed a civilian-led Western backed government, upending the country’s short-lived transition to democracy. A popular uprising forced the removal of al-Bashir and his government in April 2019.

To form a civilian government to complete the country’s transition the military would withdraw from politics and allow political forces, In July, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, the country’s leading military officer who mounted the coup in October last year, said.

An alliance of political parties and protest groups, the Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and Change, said by the country’s Bar Association the military has agreed on a draft constitutional document. 

to lead the country through elections within 24 months by “revolutionary forces” the document allows the appointment of a civilian prime minister.

They engaged with the military and international parties, and they found that the generals “are serious in handing over power to civilians”, Khalid Omar, a former minister and leading pro-democracy activist, said. 

In the capital of Khartoum he told a news conference on Monday that “This is a positive sign that we should seize and build on”.

He said with the aim of ending the coup, they would discuss the draft constitutional document with other political and protest groups.

To form a transitional government amid growing differences and disputes among the alliance members the pro-democracy movement has yet to agree on a prime minister. 

Including the Communist Party and the Resistance Committees, which led anti-coup street protests, rejected negotiations, with the military many groups. On the protests being tried in court they demand that those behind the deadly crackdown.

In the violent crackdown on the near-weekly street protests since the coup More than 100 people were killed and thousands were injured.

Such disputes were a main obstacle to ending the political deadlock, Osman Mirghani, a Sudanese analyst and the editor of the daily newspaper al-Tayar, said.

He said in a phone interview that “For over three months, they are unable to agree among themselves to name a prime minister”. “Time is on the side of the military.”