Death toll from clashes in Sudan's Darfur region climbs to 24, with around 50 homes burned and thousands of people displaced, officials say
Ethnic clashes often break out in Darfur, a vast region the size of France which was ravaged by a civil war that erupted in 2003.
The latest violence in Sudan's westernmost region near Chad erupted between members of Arab tribes and the Masalit non-Arab group in the town of Foro Baranga, about 185 kilometres from Geneina the capital of West Darfur state. Security forces have been dispatched over the past days and the situation had calmed by Wednesday, he said.
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