Last updated: July 12, 2014



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Former US president Bill Clinton

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Darfur tribal fighting hampers aid: UN

THE UN expressed deep concern over the latest deadly tribal violence in Sudan's Darfur region, which has hampered assistance for tens of thousands of people forced to flee earlier fighting.

Residents in El Sireaf town said an Arab militia firing heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades burned houses and killed more than 50 people on Saturday.

"They came on Land Cruisers, used Dushkas and they burned 30 houses (and killed) 53 people," said one resident of the town, to which most of the 100,000 people displaced or severely affected by the earlier tribal fighting had fled.

Damian Rance of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Sunday said: "We are deeply concerned by the violence".

"It's affected our ability to run a humanitarian operation."

About 100,000 people had already been displaced or severely affected by battles since early January between the Rezeigat tribe and rival Arabs from the Beni Hussein group in the Jebel Amir gold mining area of North Darfur state.

People were displaced across a wide area but most ended up in El Sireaf town, where Saturday's fighting occurred.

Aid convoys are still moving in the surrounding area but "we don't have access to El Sireaf town" because of the fighting, Rance said.