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- Abyei, the main contested region between Sudan and South Sudan (BBC)
As part of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement Abyei was scheduled to have a referendum in January 2011 to decide its fate but it never took place as Khartoum and Juba disagreed on who should be able to participate.
Last year, the African Union mediation team proposed that a referendum be held in the contested region this October, but that only those residing permanently in the area would be allowed to vote in the plebiscite, and decide whether they want to join Sudan or South Sudan.
This proposal would effectively make the majority of voters come from the Dinka Ngok tribe, aligned with South Sudan, thus putting the Arab Misseriya nomads, who spend several months in Abyei every year grazing, not part of the voting.
However, Sudan swiftly rejected the plan, which received the blessing of the AU Peace and Security Council (AUPSC).
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- Friday 17 May 2013
May 16, 2013 (JUBA) – Attendees at a high-level conference in South Sudan have issued a statement, asserting the new nation’s independence from Sudan “remains incomplete” until Abyei is transferred back to the South from which it was moved (...)
- Sunday 3 March 2013
March 1, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s deputy interior minister, General Salva Mathok Gengdit has vehemently denied accusing Warrap state’s Twic County community of backstabbing the Dinka Ngok in Abyei over territorial disputes. (...)
- Wednesday 15 May 2013
May 15, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s vice-president, Riek Machar, has called on the international community to help the two Sudans ensure conduct of the long awaited referendum for the people of Abyei. South Sudan vice-president Riek (...)
- Wednesday 15 May 2013
May 14,2013 (JUBA)- The United Nations Interim Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has relocated over 120 Sudanese national staff working in various mission support departments to Kadugli, the capital South Kordofan state, well-placed sources (...)
- Monday 13 May 2013
May 12, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan on Sunday dismissed Sudanese government claims that it provides support to rebels opposed to Khartoum regime, saying that the allegations are an attempt to cover-up the recent killing of tribal leader (...)
- Friday 3 June 2011
June 2,2011 (JUBA) - The ousted head of the Abyei administration Deng Arop Kuol, said on Thursday he believes that close to 100 people have been killed in the fighting that saw the northern military take control of the disputed border (...)
- Monday 13 May 2013
May 12, 2013 (JUBA) - The leadership of a youth group from the oil-contested border region of Abyei have called for the immediate termination of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force for Abyei (UNISFA), claiming the mission (...)
- Monday 13 May 2013
By Deng Vanang
May 13, 2013 - Until death do us part, seem to be the rapturous echoes ripping through the throbbing heart of bewildered Ngok Dinka citizens in Abyei. The disputed territory is aging as it is well over its centenary (...)
- Sunday 12 May 2013
May 11, 2013 (JUBA/KHARTOUM) - South Sudan has rejected forming a joint administration with the Sudanese government in the contested border region of Abyei, accusing Khartoum of having “killed the spirit of dialogue with [the] (...)
- Thursday 16 June 2011
By Ngor Arol Garang
June 15, 2011 (JUBA) - Officials from the government of South Sudan and members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) on Wednesday said at least five North Sudan soldiers have been killed in clashes in (...)
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