At least 130 people have been killed and around 350 injured in Sudan after three days of violence following the death of former rebel leader and vice president John Garang.
A Sudanese man is treated at Khartoum Hospital after being wounded during the riots yesterday
Residents reported the streets of the capital Khartoum were much quieter overnight than in previous nights, when gangs of armed vigilantes roamed the streets despite a curfew imposed since Monday to curb the clashes.
The Sudanese Red Crescent said the death toll in the capital by yesterday evening was 111, with six killed in Malakal and 13 in the southern town of Juba, where Garang is to be buried on Saturday.
Former president Bill Clinton today called for the United States to increase diplomatic pressure on Sudan to allow more foreign peacekeeping troops. Africa's largest country has been hit by three days of ethnically driven street clashes.
"What we should do is try to go to the UN and put some more heat on the Sudanese government," Mr Clinton said during an appearance at a convention of African-American journalists in Atlanta. "We need more troops there," he added.
Sudan's Islamic government agreed earlier this year to accept about 10,000 peacekeeping troops as part of a peace agreement signed with rebels from its largely African Christian and animist south. Most of those troops will come from China, Egypt, Kenya, India, Bangladesh and a handful of other non-Western nations.
Mr Clinton, who recently visited Africa, said additional peacekeeping troops should not come from the United States or other Western nations but from nations "less controversial" to the government in Khartoum.