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South Kordofan State


South Kordofan State in red (Disputed Abyei Area in pink)

Capital: Kadugli | Kaduqli

Area: 158,355 km2 (61,141 sq mi)

Population: 1,111,859 (2006 (est.)

Time zone: EAT (UTC+3)

Geography South Kordofan State is part of the Kordofan region of Sudan. It shares border with Darfur to the west, North Kordofan State to the north, White Nile State to the east and The Republic of South Sudan to the south.

Districts

Dilling, Rashad, Abu Jubaiyah, Talodi, Kadugli, Lagawa, As Salam, Abyei (abolished)

Abyei

Abyei is an oil-producing fertile area claimed by Sudan and South Sudan. Under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement residents of the area were due to hold a referendum to decide on its future in January 2011. The vote did not go ahead as the two countries could not decide on who was allowed to take part.

Videos

Al Jazeera | Sudan declares emergency on border with south | 29 April 2012

Al Jazeera English | Civilians bear brunt of Sudan clashes | 24 April 2012

Al Jazeera English | Inside Sudan - Southern Kordofan: Unfinished Business | 8 April 2012

With exclusive access, Al Jazeera investigates a hidden war in the remote state of Southern Kordofan in Sudan.

Al Jazeera English | ICC’s Luis Moreno-Ocampo speaks to Al Jazeera | 31 March 2012

Al Jazeera English | Sudan government adviser Rabi Abdel Atti speaks to Al Jazeera | 31 March 2012

Al Jazeera English | Sudan governor to troops: ’Take no prisoners’ | 31 March 2012

Al Jazeera English | Sudan tribes wrestle in greeting | 26 August 2007

The Baqqara Tribes of central Sudan mark the end of the cattle herding season with celebrations, including wrestling matches. Rawya Rageh reports for Al Jazeera on the tradition.


Children carry their family’s belongings as they go to Yida refugee camp in South Sudan outside Tess village in the rebel-held territory of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, May 2, 2012. (Reuters)

External Links

UN agency alarmed by humanitarian situation in Kordofan and Darfur
Monday 20 May 2013
May 19, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The United Nations has expressed its concern over the continued fleeing of civilians in South Kordofan state because of the fighting between the Sudanese Armed forces (SAF) and the rebel armed groups. A (...)
Sudan holds security meeting as FM heads to Juba
Friday 17 May 2013
May 16, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Council of Defence and National Security (CDNS) discussed Thursday the recent attacks by the alliance of rebel groups, Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF), while the foreign affairs minister is preparing to (...)
Rizeigat-British Cooperation and the Dilemma of the 14 Miles
Friday 14 September 2012
By Dhieu Mathok Diing Wol Northern Bahr el Ghazal was not fully part of the Anglo-Egyptian administration until 1922. On 21st February 1922, the British troops from Wau under the command of Bimbashi Middleton clashed with a force (...)
Sudan warns rebels against attempting to attack Khartoum
Monday 13 May 2013
May 12, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan said today that rebels from the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) will face "disastrous consequences" if they dared to launch an attack on the capital city of Khartoum. Undated photo released by the SPLM-N (...)
Sudanese president pledges to soon retake South Kordofan town
Tuesday 14 May 2013
May 13, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir, has announced that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Mujahideen (holy fighters) are “now” on the outskirts of Abu-Kershola in South Kordofan’s northeast and vowed (...)
UN mission in Abyei relocates over 120 Sudanese staff to Kadugli
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 (...)
Rare criticism of Sudan’s security agency from parliament
Monday 13 May 2013
May 12, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s National Assembly speaker Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Tahir has issued a warning to the rebel Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) saying that its leaders will face death at the hands of the army so long as they are (...)
Sudan example of how not to manage diversity - Uganda’s Museveni
Tuesday 17 April 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle April 16, 2012 (BAHIR-DAR, ETHIOPIA) - Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni, criticised African leaders who by rejecting diversity cause insecurity pointing to Sudan as a prime example of how failing to manage (...)
Khartoum continues remorseless attempts to ethnically cleanse Southern Kordofan (Nuba Mountains) and Blue Nile with impunity
Friday 18 January 2013
PRESS RELEASE. HART Visit to Blue Nile, Nuba Mountains (Southern Kordofan) and South Sudan January 4-18th 2013 Khartoum continues remorseless attempts to ethnically cleanse Southern Kordofan (Nuba Mountains) and Blue Nile with (...)
Sudan army closing in on a rebel-controlled area: sources
Sunday 5 May 2013
May 4, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) has completely surrounded the district of Abu Kershola that was overrun by rebels from the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) last week, well-placed sources in the South Kordofan (...)

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