Gunmen ambushed and killed a district chief in Sudan’s South Darfur, the state governor has said, after tribal clashes elsewhere in the troubled region reportedly left 18 dead.
Abdullah Yasin, the top government official in Katayla district, “was ambushed by armed men and lost as a martyr,” South Darfur Governor Adam Mahmoud told Al-Shurooq television.
“They are outlaws,” Mahmoud said, adding that government troops were searching for the attackers.
Anti-government rebels were not in the area, which is southwest of the state capital Nyala, the governor said.
Rebel violence is no longer the main source of unrest in Darfur, an area about the size of France…
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