Dozens killed in a clash between Arab nomads and South Sudan Army in Darfur by Zuzana Zelenakova

Sudanese officials informed Sunday that at least 55 people were killed and even more wounded in one of many clashes between Arab nomads and South Sudan Army in Darfur. The clashes are result of growing number of soldiers from the neighboring southern province that escalates the tensions in the area. "We have 55 dead and 85 wounded in our camp," said one of the heads of the Rezeigat tribe Mohammed Issa Aliou. "There are many members of the Rezeigat tribe who are heading to the (site of the clashes) in order to help out. There are also reinforcements from the south Sudan army coming from three cities -- Raja, Aweil and Wau." According to Abdullah Massar, a presidential advi! ser from one of the Arab tribes the fighting began Thursday and was still going on Sunday. He further said that southern army troops were making inbreaks into south Darfur intruding on the members of the Rezeigat tribe in the Balbala area. "The soldiers attacked a local's house and a water well deep in southern Darfur," he said. "The number of people killed is huge. This is an army with modern weapons against nomads who graze their cattle in the area." However, the Sudanese army refused the claims about its involvement in the clashes resolutely through the army spokesman Sawarmi Khaled Saad. “If one of the partners in the comprehensive peace agreement has such allegations to make about the other, the joint defence council should speak about it," he said referring to the 2005 peace agreement that put an end to more than 20 years of fighting. A part of the 2005 north-south deal was also a referendum on southern secession. These days Sudan is awaiting the results of the ! first multi-party elections in more than two decades, which we! re held earlier this month.

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