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Sixty reported dead after tribal clashes

    NAIROBI

    At least 60 people were killed last Sunday in clashes between people of the [black African] Zaghawah tribe and an Arab tribe in the area of Bi’r Tawil, in Darfur in western Sudan, the Khartoum daily newspaper ‘Al Ayyam’ reported on Wednesday. The clashes erupted when a group from one tribe killed a man from the other and stole his camel; the second tribe then sought revenge, according to the report, which did not specify which tribe instigated the conflict. Fifty-six Zaghawah men and four members of a joint military and police force who contained the fighting were killed in the clashes, the paper said.

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