{"id":61787,"date":"2026-05-31T22:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=61787"},"modified":"2026-05-31T22:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:54:47","slug":"villages-burned-displacement-and-deaths-reported-following-tribal-conflict-in-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/villages-burned-displacement-and-deaths-reported-following-tribal-conflict-in-darfur\/","title":{"rendered":"Villages Burned, Displacement and Deaths Reported Following Tribal Conflict in Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Witnesses in South Darfur State said on Sunday that fighting between the Salamat and Beni Halba tribes has resumed, with both sides reportedly using military vehicles belonging to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), resulting in the burning of villages, mass displacement, and fatalities on both sides.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Witnesses told <em>Sudan Tribune<\/em> that armed members of the Salamat and Beni Halba tribes had been using RSF vehicles in clashes that have continued since Saturday in villages surrounding the town of Kubum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>They indicated that both parties deliberately set villages ablaze, triggering widespread displacement from Kubum, Markandi, and Damba toward Ad al-Fursan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to the witnesses, the fighting was concentrated inside the town of Kubum but later spread to the villages of Wastani and Markandi, as well as several areas in Central Darfur inhabited by members of both ethnic groups.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Activists circulated videos on social media showing fires raging inside Kubum, in addition to footage allegedly depicting the mutilation of bodies and the torture of prisoners.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Witnesses further reported that the clashes caused casualties among the armed fighters, with some bodies reportedly left unburied due to fears of ambushes.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses in South Darfur State said on Sunday that fighting between the Salamat and Beni Halba tribes has resumed, with both sides reportedly using military vehicles belonging to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), resulting in the burning of villages, mass displacement, and fatalities on both sides. Witnesses told Sudan Tribune that armed members of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61788,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61787\/revisions\/61788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}