Cairo: Over the past few days, at least 12 people have died in tribal fighting in Sudan's long-restile Darfur region, an aid organization said.

At least 42 people were injured during clashes between herders and farmers in Beleil area of South Darfur province, according to Adam Riegel, spokesman for the General Coordination for Refugees and Displaced Persons in Darfur.

According to local officials, a man was killed in Amauri village after shepherds attempted to steal a motorized rickshaw known as a tuk-tuk.

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Shepherds and local people clashed on Thursday and Friday, which worsened the fighting. To help end the fighting, authorities declared a state of emergency and imposed a nightly curfew in Beléil on Saturday.

According to Regal, 12 people were killed in the fighting, although there may have been more. He claimed that many villages in the vicinity had either been burnt or looted. He claimed that hundreds of families were uprooted and found refuge in Nyala, the provincial center of South Darfur.

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The recent wave of violence in Darfur was the most recent. At least 48 people were killed in tribal fighting in central Darfur province in November. In 2003, insurgents from the region's ethnic Central and Sub-Saharan African communities launched an insurgency accusing the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum of discrimination and neglect, triggering bloodshed across the vast region.

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Under then-President Omar Bashir, the government retaliated with a scorched-earth offensive of aerial bombings and unleashed the Janjaweed, a local nomadic militia that has been implicated in mass murder and rape. Up to 300,000 deaths and 2.7 million evictions are estimated.