Sudan Official: Death Toll from Days of Tribal Clashes at 79

Scores of Hausa people gather outside local government offices in Port Sudan, on the Red Sea, on July 19, 2022 to demand justice for comrades killed in a deadly land dispute with a rival ethnic group in the country's south. (AFP)

Days of tribal clashes in a southern province in Sudan have killed at least 79 people, a senior Sudanese official said Tuesday as violent protests erupted in two nearby provinces in the East African nation.

The clashes between the Hausa and Birta ethnic groups in the Blue Nile province grew out of a killing of a farmer last week. The violence has also injured around 200 people, according to Gamal Nasser al-Sayed, the province’s health minister.