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UNISFA - United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei UNISFA - United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei
UN Security Council Resolution: 1990 of 27 June 2011
Location: Abyei Area, Sudan
Headquarters: Abyei Town
Duration: June 2011 to present
Mandate:
UNISFA’s mandate is to demilitarise and monitoring peace in the disputed Abyei Area, which is claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan.
According to the UNISFA website:
The Security Council, by its resolution 1990 of 27 June 2011, responded to the urgent situation in Sudan’s Abyei region by establishing the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). The Security Council was deeply concerned by the violence, escalating tensions and population displacement.
The operation will monitor the flashpoint border between north and south, and is authorized to use force in protecting civilians and humanitarian workers in Abyei.
UNISFA’s establishment came after the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) reached an agreement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to demilitarize Abyei and let Ethiopian troops to monitor the area.
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UNISFA - United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei
- Friday 10 May 2013
By Eric Reeves,
May 9, 2013 - The recent (May 4, 2013) deaths of two UN peacekeepers in Abyei have a chilling familiarity, though to this point there has been no firm establishment of responsibility. Familiar also are the formulaic (...)
- 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 (...)
- Saturday 10 September 2011
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
September 9, 2011(ADDIS ABABA) - Sudan and newly independent South Sudan on Thursday agreed to completely withdraw their respective armed forces from the contested oil-producing border region of Abyei before (...)
- Friday 10 May 2013
May 9, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Thursday openly accused the government of neigbouring Sudan of killing the paramount chief of the disputed border region of Abyei, Kuol Deng Kuol. South Sudan President (...)
- Wednesday 8 May 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
May 7, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Ethiopian government on Tuesday condemned the killing of an Ethiopian peacekeeper and a tribal leader in the contested Abyei region, which is claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan. (...)
- Friday 15 March 2013
March 13, 2013 (JUBA) - The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon has appointed Maj. Gen. Yohannes Gebremeskel Tesfamariam, the new head of mission and force commander of its Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). UN (...)
- Thursday 9 May 2013
May 8, 2013 (JUBA) – A number of key Africans presidents have condemned the killing of Ngok Dinka chief Kuol Deng Kuol in the contested border region of Abyei, warning that the incident poses a grave threat to stability and peace (...)
- 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) - 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 7 November 2011
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
November 6, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Ethiopian government said on Saturday that its brigade of peacekeeping forces deployed in Abyei, a territory claimed by both north Sudan and South Sudan, is exerting maximum (...)
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