Local sources have reported fresh inter-communal clashes on Tuesday in the border area between South Sudan’s Unity state and West Kordofan state in Sudan. The clashes reportedly involve the pastoralist Arab tribe of the Misseriya and the Nuer tribe.
Mohamed Adam Wad Abuk, a Misseriya tribal leader, told Radio Tamazuj that a group of cattle raiders from the Nuer tribe in Unity state came and took cattle from them, prompting fierce fighting between the two tribes.
He confirmed that the attack resulted in the killing of several people from the two sides. But he did not know the number of casualties during those clashes.
Wad Abuk pointed out that they managed to recover the cattle. Radio Tamazuj could not independently verify the claims.