SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Reuters - Sudan boosts security in port city after 32 die in tribal clashes

13/8/2020: Reuters - Sudan boosts security in port city after 32 die in tribal clashes

 Reuters reports that Sudan has beefed up security in the Red Sea state and imposed a curfew in Port Sudan after 32 people died in recent tribal clashes, Sudan’s interior ministry said.

 Security forces arrested 85 people over the recent violence, which also left 98 people wounded.

 Local media reports and activists on social media said the clashes broke out between the Beni Amer and Nuba tribes which have a history of mutual violence. Representatives of the two tribes signed a reconciliation deal in September 2019.

 The government had deployed more security forces to the state to impose “the prestige of the state and the rule of law, and to strengthen security and stability,” the interior ministry said.