Luka Biong: Leaders of SPLM-N Tired of War, Seek Regional Mediation Abyei – South Sudan government said the recently agreement with Sudan on oil will contribute to resolving the rest of the unresolved issues between the two countries.Official in charge of the Abyei dossier in the government of South Sudan Dr. Luka Biong said in [...]
Photo: UN Photo/Tim McKulka Khartoum — Sudanese government decided to move backwards from its initial decision to send a steering committee to Abyei, putting an end to recent tensions over the administrative status in the contested area. “On 5 July, UNISFA received a copy of a written administrative order dated 26 June from the South [...]
Talks on the disputed Abyei region are expected to dominate an upcoming summit when the presidents of Sudan and South Sudan meet next month. Sudan’s leader, Omar al-Bashir, and Salva Kiir Mayardit, of South Sudan, are scheduled to meet at an undetermined site on September 22. The two leaders last met on the sidelines of [...]
Khartoum — The spokesperson of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Al-Sawarmi Khalid Saad, has rejected threats by the government of South Sudan to invade Abyei if Khartoum does not withdraw its troops, warning that any move to that effect will turn the disputed territory into “a zone of armed conflict.” Speaking to Sudan‘s official news [...]
May 14, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The spokesperson of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Al-Sawarmi Khalid Saad, has rejected threats by the government of South Sudan to invade Abyei if Khartoum does not withdraw its troops, warning that any move to that effect will turn the disputed territory into “a zone of armed conflict.” FILE PHOTO [...]
Abyei — Around 700 South Sudanese police officers will begin withdrawing from the disputed border area of Abyei on Monday following last week’s UN security council resolution and the African Union‘s road map. Deputy chairman of the advisory committee for Abyei, Luka Biong told Radio Dabanga that police will begin to leave the area today, [...]
The Republic of South Sudan, the newest member state of the UN, has entered into a world that is stratified into the top billion people who are prosperous, middle four billion of people who are developing and on track to be prosperous and bottom billion of people who are struck at the bottom with appalling [...]
By Ngor Arol Garang February 7, 2012 (JUBA) – The Abyei Joint Oversight Committee (AJOC) has called on humanitarian organisations to urgently respond to the deteriorating humanitarian situation among those displaced from the contested area in mid-2011 when north Sudan’s military took control of the area by force. SPLM’s Luka Biong, August 4, 2011 (Enough [...]
Why Did South Sudan Offer Buying Abyei? We can excuse the SPLM in South Sudan for the shameful offer to buy the disputed area of Abyei. The dispute over Abyei was supposed to be resolved through the referendum the SPLM has rejected its conduct without any persuasive reasons. We excuse the SPLM because the culture [...]
1 October 2011 Juba — South Sudan on Friday said Khartoum is deliberately delaying the withdrawal of the armed forces from the contested oil region of Abyei, after Khartoum failed to withdraw it troops by an agreed deadline. In a statement on Friday, Luka Biong, a senior member of South Sudan‘s ruling SPLM also accused [...]
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