Northern Army Takes Sudan's Abyei Region

May 22, 2011 from Euronews

Sudan's northern army has taken control of the disputed Abyei region and is clearing it of southern troops, says Khartoum. Oil-rich and fertile, Abyei is the main sticking point in the separation of Sudan, following January's vote for independence in the south. Both sides are supposed to withdraw their troops from the region but the north accuses the south of maintaining forces there. An estimated two million people have died in the country's decades-long civil war.

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Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan and sometimes called North Sudan, is an Arab state in North Africa and the Middle East bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Repu... Explore this topic

Abyei

The Abyei Area is an area of 10,546 square kilometres in Sudan accorded "special administrative status" by the 2004 Protocol on the Resolution of the Abyei Conflict in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the Second Sudanese Civil War. The capital of Abyei Area is Abye... Explore this topic

South Sudan

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Khartoum

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