Local authorities in Sudan’s East Darfur State have agreed to pay 220,000 SDG as blood compensation for the killing of a Ma’alia tribesman who was trying to recover stolen cattle from a group of raiders on Sunday.
Yusuf Ali, a member of the Ma’alia peace committee, told Radio Tamazuj yesterday that the Deputy Governor Mohamed Al-Hassan pledged to pay the blood compensation within a week.
He pointed out that the government also pledged to pay 400,000 SDG to compensate the Ma’alia tribe whose cattle have been stolen recently. Ali blamed incidents of cattle thefts on the Rizeiget tribe.
On Monday, several local activists expressed concern at ‘mounting tensions’ between the Rizeigat and Ma’alia tribes after the two sides failed to reach an agreement at a peace meeting held in Abu Haraz area near Khartoum.