Egyptian officials held an overnight reconciliation meeting between two feuding clans two days after a tribal vendetta was revived in the Egyptian southern governorate of Aswan, leaving two dead.

Clashes erupted Thursday between the Nubian Daboudia tribe and the Arab Hilaliya tribe, leaving two members of the Nubian tribe dead, almost three months after a temporary truce was called when a vendetta bloodbath left more than two dozen killed.

In early April, clashes between the two tribes left at least 26 dead and scores of others wounded. A one-month truce was declared days after the violence.

A committee comprising the local governor and security and military officials reached a reconciliation agreement between the two large tribes in a meeting that lasted to Saturday dawn, a source from the committee told Al-Ahram Arabic news website.

Both families have agreed to end the violence and an official reconciliation agreement is to be concluded late Saturday, the source said.

Aswan is a tourist city on the River Nile, some 900 kilometres south of Cairo.

Vendetta killings are common in Upper Egypt where locals have greater access to weapons.

Some feuds between local families, where the government often intervenes to mediate a truce, can be traced back decades.