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2008-05-22 Africa Horn

Sudan: 22 soldiers killed in Abyei clash

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Posted by Steve White 2008-05-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Sudan

#1 The 1972 peace agreeemnt that brouht the civil war of seventeen years duration to an end promised the Southern Sudanese a plebiscite to determine the status of Abyei. The "villae" is a large collection of huts and is thoroughly southern and Nilotic in character. The Arab powers in Khartoum have never held the plebiscite and are determined that the oil found there will be "northern", i.e., theirs. Some of the fighting that reignited the second civil war 1983-onward, was centered on Abyei. In sum, this is bad news.

Posted by Balthazar 2008-05-22 11:09|| 2008-05-22 11:09|| Front Page Top

#2 I've come to expect that *any* news coming out of Sudan is bad. :(

Posted by Seafarious 2008-05-22 11:39|| 2008-05-22 11:39|| Front Page Top

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