Eighteen dead as violence escalates in Sudan’s West Darfur region

Local medics say at least 54 people were wounded in the clashes in the Sudanese city of El Geneina.

At least 18 people have been killed and 54 wounded in tribal clashes in the Sudanese city of El Geneina, medics said on Monday, in a renewal of bloodshed following a major flare-up of violence earlier this year. The incident is the latest in the troubled region since the signing of a peace agreement late last year and the withdrawal of UN peacekeepers. “The committee recorded 18 fatalities and 54 wounded, who are receiving medical care at El Geneina Teaching Hospital,” the West Darfur Doctors’ Committee said in a statement, citing clashes on Saturday and Sunday.