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9 people killed and 7 others wounded in tribal clashes in Kalma Camps in South Darfur |
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Saturday, 20 October 2007 |
 Nine internally displaced people are dead and seven others wounded in clashes between armed groups in Kalma camps in Nyala town of South Darfur State.
The clashes led to almost 700 families fleeing the camp towards the town and other camps.
The ministers of defense and interior as well as the director of intelligence had arrived in the camp to verify the situation.
Meanwhile, the African Union had established a committee to investigate the perpetrators behind the incident.
The leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement Abdel Wahid Mohammed Al-Nur accused the Sudanese government of conducting new strategy to weaken the people of Darfur before the Libyan peace talks scheduled later this month could start.
Hoever, more Darfur factions have arrived in Juba for consultations. The chairman of the SPLM Darfur Task Force, Canon Clement Janda, said that the additional groups began arriving in Juba on Thursday.
He said more groups are expected to come from Tripoli and Chad on Saturday.
The leader of the SLM faction, Dr. Saleh Adam Ishac, said that special negotiations are going on among the four different factions of the movement with the aim to unite.
"We have started consultations and have reached a positive step, we asked everyone to be flexible be united," said Dr. Ishac. Dr. Ishac said that other leaders of some Darfur factions are expected to arrive in Juba. "We are consulting with our brothers in the SPLM who are trying to persuade Abdallah Wahid Mohammed Al-Nur and we are waiting for him," he said.The meeting of the Darfur movements in Juba began last Monday with 40-plus factions attending, to unify their positions before the peace talks scheduled to take place in Serti, Libya later this month. The meeting is going-on without the key faction leaders such as Abdul Wahid Mohammed Al-Nur of the SLM and Ibrahim Kalid of the Justice and Equality Movement.
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