Death toll rises from fighting in Sudan’s West Darfur: UN

The United Nations says 56 killed and thousands of people have fled after days of tribal clashes in El Geneina.

The death toll from days of tribal clashes in Sudan’s West Darfur has risen to 56, the United Nations said, revising the death toll. Thousands are fleeing the fighting, which has seen a power station in the state capital El Geneina destroyed, at least one rocket-propelled grenade hit a key hospital, and another smash into a UN compound, the UN said on Tuesday. “The number of deaths has risen to 56 and more have been injured,” the UN humanitarian coordination office said, with clashes pitting Arab tribes against the non-Arab Masalit ethnic group.