The Hausa ethnic group is mobilized across the country, claiming to be discriminated against by law which prohibits it from having land.
Le Monde with AFP
Thirty days of state of emergency. This is what Ahmed Al-Omda Badi, the Governor of the State of the Nile-Bleu, in southern Sudan, has been declared on Friday, October 21, in southern Sudan, while giving full powers to the security forces to “stop” Tribal fights which left 150 dead in two days. The text, consulted by the France-Presse agency, calls for local police, army and intelligence services as well as paramilitaries of the rapid support forces “to intervene by all possible means to stop the fights between tribes “.
Wednesday and Thursday, “150 people including women, children and the elderly, were killed, and 86 injured,” according to Abbas Moussa, the director of the Wad Al-Mahi hospital, some 500 kilometers From Khartoum, where violence took place. As of Monday, the authorities had imposed a nocturnal curfew after the death of thirteen people, according to the UN, in clashes between members of the Hausa ethnic group and rival clans, but the clashes have resumed despite the security deployment .
safe vacuum
Thursday, several hundred people demonstrated in Ed-Damazin, capital of the Nile-Bleu, to protest against violence. Others demanded the departure of the governor. From July to early October, at least 149 people had been killed, and 65,000 displaced, according to the United Nations.
At the beginning of these violence, the Hausa had mobilized through Sudan, saying they were discriminated against by the tribal law which prohibits them, because they arrived the last in the Nile-Bleu, to own the earth. The question of access to land is very sensitive in the country, one of the poorest in the world, where agriculture and breeding represent 43 % of jobs and 30 % of the gross domestic product.
Since General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman al-Bourhane’s putsch on October 25, 2021, tribal conflicts are up because of the experts, the security vacuum created by the coup. Last week, 19 people were killed, and 34 injured in tribal clashes at the Western Kordofan (South), according to the UN. Since January, nearly 550 people have been killed, and more than 210,000 moved by tribal conflicts, according to the UN.