a prelude to the Southern Sudanese independence referendum, in the fighting between north and south disputed oil region of Abyei. Dozens of people died.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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JUBA taz the southern Sudanese Dinka and soldiers of the JIU, the so-called Joint Integrated Units of northern and southern Sudanese armies. On the weekend went on these conflicts. Abyei is an oil-rich region known to secure the oil rigs and pipelines, it was essential even in times of war to both belligerents, which ethnic groups are based in the oil areas. Today we are there mainly to grazing rights, says South Sudan Minister of Regional Cooperation, Deng Alor, who comes from Abyei. The Misseriya are nomads from the north who move several times a year with their herds of cattle to the watering places in the south, while not yet finally determined Border between North and South Sudan to cross.
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your future citizenship is still not resolved. Therefore, in Abyei is also not a referendum. The JIU units are common associations of North and South, whose soldiers were mostly recruited from rebel groups that do not belong to the North nor the South Army. Most of these soldiers, however, are Southern.
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your future citizenship is still not resolved. Therefore, in Abyei is also not a referendum. The JIU units are common associations of North and South, whose soldiers were mostly recruited from rebel groups that do not belong to the North nor the South Army. Most of these soldiers, however, are Southern.
are now being equipped with weapons from the north of the Misseriya and Dinka from the South, according to Juba. In a conference would have the Abyei Dinka recently banned the Misseriya to lead their cattle to Abyei, before they had not even caught up with the next crop, says Minister Alor. He warns: "Once the water in the North is running out, the Misseriya to advance to the waterholes in the Dinka-region, it will there be war
This is now likely to happen on Saturday it was 14 km north of Abyei at.. fighting. GoSS police spokesman Biar Mading says this information was sensitive and does not confirm definitively, so he could say about the possible involvement of the South Sudan police forces and more than eleven dead policemen, one of which was in first reports of the speech yet.
The Arab Khartoum
newspaper Al-Sahafah
reported, citing a Dinka Ngok spokesman 49 dead, the news agency Reuters, citing a Misseriya Guide 23 deaths. South Sudan army spokesman Philip Aguer speaks of more than 20 dead. Other sources say the death toll, however, significantly lower.
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