KHARTOUM, 16 January 2021, (TON):  Sudanese authorities on Saturday imposed a round-the-clock curfew in the entire West Darfur province after foreign forces generated tribal clashes between Arabs and non-Arabs that killed at least 32 people and wounded at least 54 others.

Governor Mohammed Abdalla al-Douma said the curfew began Saturday and would last until further notice, and includes the closure of all markets and a ban on gatherings across the province. Al-Douma also granted security forces and soldiers a mandate to use force to control the situation. 

The violence comes two weeks after the U.N. Security Council ended the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force’s mandate in the Darfur region, following pressure from Sudan’s transitional government, Russia and other African nations. The Darfur region remains scarred by war after a rebellion in the early 2000s was brutally suppressed.

The clashes erupted Friday in Genena, West Darfur’s provincial capital, when a man was killed at a market in the Krinding camp for internally displaced people.  

The clashes resulted after the uprising led the military and supported by foreign that overthrow longtime legitimate government of Omar al-Bashir in April 2019. A military-civilian government backed by foreign nations is now in power while Omar al-Bashir is facing serious charges.