El Sunut News Today

At least 24 people were killed and others were injured in an ambush in ​​​​Abu Zabad, West Kordofan, on Saturday. The attack caused tensions in the region to rise.

Misseriya youth protesters involved in a border dispute with the local Hamar tribe stormed the Um Adara oil field in West Kordofan on Thursday, forcing the station to halt its activities and detaining the oil workers. The oil pipeline transporting oil from the station has also been closed down, which might cause severe technical issues and permanent damage.

The authorities in El Nehoud in West Kordofan have suspended their work in compliance with the request of the Humur tribe after conflict over new unilateral border demarcations. An armed group also closed the road linking El Nehoud with El Obeid, capital of North Kordofan, on Wednesday, but it was reopened hours later on the orders of Humur leaders.

On Saturday, a farmer was killed and 20 others were injured in clashes north of El Sunut in West Kordofan. Salah Mohamedi, the media secretary of the National Umma Party branch in West Kordofan, told Radio Dabanga from El Sunut town that two groups of farmers clashed over a land conflict.

Violence and tensions rose in the past days in South and West Kordofan. At least six people were killed and 19 others were injured in tribal clashes in Abu Jubeiha, South Kordofan, on Sunday and Monday whilst at least nice people were killed in violent clashes in West Kordofan in the past days.

At least nine people were killed in renewed tribal clashes in Reefi locality in Kassala and in Sunut locality in West Kordofan this week. In Kassala, a tribal leader had asked the state’s police to transfer more police to the area whilst a tribal leader in West Kordofan had asked the state’s security committee to intervene.