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Abyei Abyei
- Abyei, the main contested region between Sudan and South Sudan (BBC)
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Abyei | Abyei borders | Abyei Dispute / Conflict
Related Institutions
Abyei Chief administrators
- 7 Jun 2011 - Present | Ahmed Hussein al-Imam
- 30 Dec 2009 - 21 May 2011 | Deng Arop Kuol
- 31 Aug 2008 - 30 Dec 2009 | Arop Moyak
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- 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 10 November 2010
November 9, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Sudan has laid out three options before the Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) to break the deadlock on the oil-rich region of Abyei that lies on the (...)
- 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 (...)
- 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 26 May 2012
- Sunday 5 May 2013
May 4, 2013 (JUBA)- Kuol Deng Kuol, the paramount chief of the Nine Ngok Dinka of the disputed border region of Abyei has been killed in an ambush, officials here said today. Troops from the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) in (...)
- 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 (...)
- Saturday 11 May 2013
By Ngor Arol Garang
May 10, 2013 - The past days have seen global community watching members of the Nine Ngok Dinka of Abyei, together with their cousins in the South Sudan shedding tears unabated. They are grieved by the unexpected, (...)
- 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 (...)
- 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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The Invasion of Abyei: two years of more agony 2013-05-20 05:39:13 By Luka Biong Deng May 19, 2013 - On 21st May 2013, the people of Abyei have spent two years of more agony and they will remember again the sad memories of how their lives and livelihoods were (...)
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