Tribal clashes between the Fallata and Salamat tribes near al-Nadif area in Buram locality of Sudan’s South Darfur State resulted in more than a dozen people killed and wounded, al-Tariq newspaper reported.

One of the wounded from the Salamat tribe said that about eight people were killed and six others injured from their side, while Younis Daud from the Fallata tribe admitted that 13 people were killed and eight others sustained injuries from their side.

For his part, Yusuf al-Samani, the nazir (paramount chief) of the Fallata tribe, told Radio Tamazuj on Tuesday that preliminary reports confirmed that 13 people were killed from both sides.

He accused members of the Salamat tribe of stealing cattle from them. He also blamed recent clashes on the failure of a peace committees previously tasked to follow up on resolutions developed by the two tribes. A peace and reconciliation conference was convened between the two sides in Buram in September 2015 but the two sides did not adhere resolutions reach during the meeting, he said.

Misseriya peace meeting

Separately, a peace meeting between the Zeyoud and Awlad Omran clans of the Misseriya tribe in West Kordofan State was concluded recently in Ad Daein town in East Darfur.

Al Nazeer Jibril al-Guni, the emir of the Zeyoud clan, told Radio Tamazuj that they had signed a peace document. He pointed out the two feuding clans were committed to pay blood money amounting to 3 million Sudanese pounds to 115 victims from the two sides.