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Al-Araby
Armed fighting broke out on Monday in El-Geneina, capital of West Darfur and Sudan’s westernmost city, residents said, as violence that killed scores of people in a nearby town over the weekend spread. Unrest across Darfur, where a war between rebels and government forces backed by militias claimed an estimated 300,000 lives in the early 2000s and displaced millions, has been on the increase in the past two years. The fighting over the weekend was among the most deadly in the region over that period. Last year alone some 430,000 people were displaced. “Since sundown we’ve been hearing gunshots…