Over the past three weeks, tribal fighting has killed dozens of people in three separate areas of Sudan's West Darfur region, and thousands of people have fled the violence, local medics said.
The West Darfur Doctors Committee said on Wednesday and Thursday that attacks in the Kreinik area killed 88 and wounded 84, while renewed violence in the Jebel Moon area killed 25 and wounded four. At least eight people were killed and six wounded in the Sarba locality.
The committee said late on Wednesday that they had created a wave of displacement from the outskirts into the town, with a humanitarian situation that can be described as catastrophic.
One resident said a camp of displaced people had been flattened and thousands of people had sought refuge in government buildings.
The area is completely destroyed, the resident said.
Violence first broke out between armed Arab camel herders on 17 November in the rugged Jebel Moon Mountains of West Darfur.
Separate clashes between rival groups using automatic weapons erupted on Saturday in the Krink region of West Darfur.
Many of the wounded died because they were unable to reach medical facilities, and community clinics in rural areas are not equipped with medical facilities, according to the doctors union in West Darfur on Thursday.
It said 106 people had been wounded.
Analysts say a peace deal signed by some rebel groups in October 2020 was one of the causes of unrest as local groups jostled for power.
Humanitarian groups said there had been a rise in conflict in the Darfur region recently.
The Coordinating Committee for Refugee and Displacement Camps, a local NGO, said on Wednesday there was renewed violence in the Jebel Moon area, where aid workers reported 43 killed and 10,000 displaced in November.
The Zamzam refugee camp was encircled by militias on Wednesday and the Donki Shata area of North Darfur was attacked, the committee said on Wednesday.
More than 22,000 people have been displaced by the fighting, with 2,000 refugees fleeing the border into Chad, according to the United Nations.
Since 2003, Darfur has been ruled by emergency orders from Khartoum when it was ravaged by civil war between ethnic minority rebels who complained of discrimination and the Arab-dominated government of then President Omar al-Bashir.
Khartoum unleashed the Janjaweed militias and blamed them for mass killings, rape, and looting and burning villages.
One of the world's worst humanitarian catastrophes was caused by the violence. More than 350,000 people have been killed and at least 2 million people have been displaced by conflict in the region, according to the UN.
Aid groups and Darfur residents complain that the militias continue to attack villages and camps. Aid groups say that 430,000 people have been displaced over the past year, a four-fold increase over 2020.
Will Carter, of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said in a statement on Wednesday that national authorities and the international community must deal with the bloody reality of this spiralling violence.