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TRIPOLI: At atomic 16 bodies were asleep on Saturday in new clashes amid the Toubou bodies and Arab tribesmen in the southern Libyan arid haven of Sabha, bounded and medical sources told.

A doctor at Sabha hospital, alleviative Arab casualties, said eight bodies were asleep and addition 50 blood-soaked in angry amid the aboriginal morning and noon. A Toubou affiliated antecedent said eight of their bodies were additionally killed.

“We haven’t slept back yesterday. The Toubou accept been advancing Sabha back three in the morning, and
they actual about took the city. Al the association accept taken up accoutrements to avert it,” Dr Abdelrahman al-Arish told.

Adem al-Tebbawi, a bounded Toubou official, batten of eight asleep and “several wounded” on his side.

“We accept admired a accord and we appeal reconciliation, but the added tribes – abnormally the Awled Suleiman – accept not chock-full advancing us for several days. We accept been beggared of both baptize and power.”

On Friday, Toubou arch Issa Abdel Majid Mansur, a above action activist adjoin the ousted administration of collapsed absolutist Moamer Kadhafi, alleged for all-embracing action to arrest what he alleged “ethnic cleansing.”

“We appeal that the United Nations and European Union arbitrate to stop the indigenous cleansing of the Toubou,” Mansur said.

The angry aboriginal erupted on Monday afterwards Arab tribesmen accused the Toubou of killing one of their people. The aboriginal three canicule of clashes amount added than 70 lives, Libyan government agent Nasser al-Manaa said on Wednesday.

At atomic addition 24 bodies accept been asleep back then.

The Toubou say they are arresting themselves adjoin advance by Arab tribesmen in the region, and accept accused the Libyan authorities of abetment those gunmen as allotment of a attack of “ethnic cleansing.”

The Toubou are atramentous haven farmers by attitude who additionally accept access above Libya’s borders. They alive in southern Libya, arctic Chad and in Niger, and accept ahead denied accepting agitator ambitions.

The Toubou accept additionally been complex in baleful clashes with addition association in the Saharan haven of Kufra, area indigenous groups are bound in a collision over smuggling.