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Dozens killed in violence in disputed South Sudan region
Several dozen people have been killed in a spasm of intercommunal violence in a disputed area of South Sudan, the UN’s emergency response agency OCHA and a local official said Wednesday. OCHA said the fighting in the oil-rich Abyei area on the border with Sudan had left 36 people killed as of March 6, with an unknown number injured and reportedly 50,000 displaced. “Intercommunal tensions increased in recent weeks in the Abyei Administrative Area (AAA), allegedly driven by longstanding territorial disputes, inter-tribal tensions and revenge seeking,” the agency said in a statement. Read the rest at the link Related: South Sudan: 2022-02-17 EU allocates €18 million to help refugees in North African countries, including Egypt South Sudan: 2022-01-17 Good Morning South Sudan: 2022-01-17 South Sudan, SPLA-IO splinter group to sign peace agreement in Khartoum Related: Abyei: 2020-04-13 Ngok-Dinka, Misseriya fail to strike deal ending Abyei tribal tensions Abyei: 2019-09-14 Kiir, Hamdok agree to resume discussions on Sudans’ border crossings Abyei: 2014-03-29 South Sudan troops in disputed Abyei threaten peace: Bashir aide Posted by: badanov 2022-03-11 |
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