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According to a spokesman for the African Union said Saturday a number of
people have died and others injured during recent violence at a camp in
southern Darfur.
The AU's Noureddine Mezni would not say exactly how many people were killed
or injured in clashes Thursday at the Kalama refugee camp, which is southeast
of the South Darfur capital, Nyala.
Al Sahafa said the clashes were sparked by differences among tribal groups
that signed a peace agreement with the Sudanese government in 2006 and those
who did not sign the agreement.
The violence comes a week before Darfur rebel
factions and the government are set to meet in Libya
to try to put an end to more than four years of violence in the war-torn
region.
Khartoum is blamed for
indiscriminately retaliating against black civilians. More than 200,000 people
have died and 2.5 million been chased from their home despite an African Union
peacekeeping mission deployed in the region.
The 7,000-strong AU force is to be replaced in January by a hybrid force of
26,000 AU and U.N. peacekeepers.
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