Local sources have reported fresh inter-communal clashes yesterday in the border area between East Darfur and West Kordofan states in Sudan. The clashes in the Klobbi area involve the pastoralist Arab tribes of the Misseriya and Rizeigat.

Rizeigat tribe member Al Shartai Bashir Hamdi accused members of Misseriya of assaulting Rizeigat in Kobbi district last  Saturday, killing 4 people and injuring two others from the Rizeigat side.

The the wounded were transferred to Abu-Jabira  for treatment while seven members of the Misseriya were injured and they are currently being treated at Meiram hospital.

“The situation since yesterday was normal and calm. No more revenge attack from any other side,” he said.

However, in the same context a Misseriya tribe member who preferred to withhold his name told Radio Tamazuj that a similar incident occurred also between a group of Rizeigat and another section of Misseriya near Gardud Marir district.

He referred to the death of five Rizeigat and injury of three from the side of the Misseriya Fayareen.