KHARTOUM, Aug 10: The United Nations said on Friday that 25,000 people have been displaced in Sudan's Darfur region after unrest that began 10 days ago with the killing of a government official.

“Reports received by the UN indicate that the entire population of the Kassab IDP camp — 25,000 people — fled because of the fighting,” the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said in its latest weekly bulletin.

The Kassab camp — home to people who had already been displaced by Darfur's nine-year-long conflict — is on the edge of Kutum town, northwest of the North Darfur state capital El Fasher.

The unrest, part of a surge in violence in Sudan's vast western region, began on August 1 when a district chief, Abdelrahman Mohammed Eissa, was shot dead in Kutum during a carjacking attempt.—AFP