Top Sudanese official have arrived to assess the situation in West Darfur where hundreds more troops have been deployed. 

Things have been relatively calm in Darfur for the past decade.

The United Nations called the western region of Sudan the world’s worst humanitarian crisis after fighting broke out there in 2013. 

The death toll exceeded 300 000 and more than 2,5 million were driven from their homes

The latest fighting between Arabs and Africans is centred on a  camp for internally displaced persons near the West Darfur capital of El Geneina. 

Ten villages have been torched and hundreds of people have fled into neighboring chad,

A UN AU peacekeepers camp in South Darfur has been raided.

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Economic and security problems have dogged the Mediterranean country squeezed between Algeria and Libya .

The Niba Tounes coalition of the late President Beji Caid Essebsi, whose death in July forced the election earlier than planned, has effectively disintegrated.

So the only relatively safe bet in this field of 26 candidates is that no-one will  emerge as an outright winner.

This will necessitate a second round between the two frontrunners by early November.

That will be after parliamentary elections that will shape the future of country that historically punches above its weight  in the African, Arab and Mediterranean worlds. 

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