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UN boosts peacekeepers in Abyei to over 5300, demands Sudan complete …

| June 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

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Khartoum Calls On US’s Rice to Handle Objectively Sudan’s Issues

| May 31, 2013 | 0 Comments

Khartoum — Khartoum on Thursday rejected a statement by U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, about bombing of civilians in South Kordofan and called to take “impartial and objective” stands when she deal with Sudanese issues. Following the adoption , on 29 May, of a resolution extending the mandate of UN force in [...]

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Khartoum calls on US’s Rice to handle Sudan’s issues objectively

| May 31, 2013 | 0 Comments

May 30, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Khartoum on Thursday rejected a statement by US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, about bombing of civilians in South Kordofan and called to take “impartial and objective” stands when she deal with Sudanese issues. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, addresses the media following a UN [...]

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UN boosts peacekeepers in Abyei to over 5000, demands Sudan complete …

| May 30, 2013 | 0 Comments

The Security Council on Wednesday unanimously voted to send 1,100 more peacekeepers to the Abyei region and demanded that Sudan began withdrawing troops from the region that is also claimed by newly-independent South Sudan. The move raises the force strength there to over 5,300 troops. The U.N. mission will partly help mark the border in [...]

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Sudan- 1100 peacekeepers added to Abyei force

| May 30, 2013 | 0 Comments

(MENAFN – Arab News) UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council yesterday voted to add more than 1,100 extra troops to the international peacekeeping force in Abyei amid new tensions between Sudan and South Sudan over the territory. The move comes after the killing of a tribal leader and an Ethiopian peacekeeper in the past month. [...]

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Security Council extends Mission in Abyei for six months, enlarges UN presence

| May 29, 2013 | 0 Comments

Print 29 May 2013 ? The Security Council today extended until 30 November the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping force for Abyei, an area contested by South Sudan and Sudan, and increased the authorized number of troops there by more than 1,100 personnel. Today’s resolution augments the authorized strength of the UN Interim Security [...]

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UN concerned over Khartoum’s suspension of local NGO’s activities

| May 24, 2013 | 0 Comments

May 19, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The United Nations (UN) has expressed its concern over suspending activities of the Sudanese aid group Al- Manar which provides food for about 528 malnourished children in Khartoum’s neighbourhoods of Mayo and Mandela as well as Omdurman women’s prison. A tent for residents of the Mayo IDP Camp in Khartoum [...]

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The Invasion of Abyei – Two Years of More Agony

| May 22, 2013 | 0 Comments

On 21st May 2013, the people of Abyei have spent two years of more agony and they will remember again the sad memories of how their lives and livelihoods were shattered by Bashir when he invaded Abyei in May 2011. But such memories will be bitterer this year as their Paramount Chief Kuol Deng has [...]

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UN calls for extra troops in disputed Abyei

| May 22, 2013 | 0 Comments

//– Video Eldorado Park residents say they feel much safer thanks to an intervention spearheaded by President Jacob Zuma. Coverage The controversial landing of a chartered Gupta jet at Waterkloof Air Force Base is finally debated in Parliament. Exclusive It took eNCA’s investigation for the SAPS to realise that their website had beenRead more: http://www.enca.com/africa/un-calls-extra-troops-disputed-abyei

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Sudan, South Sudan hold talks to ease Abyei tensions

| May 21, 2013 | 0 Comments

The talks came after UN leader Ban Ki-moon and the African Union appealed for calm in the flashpoint area following the killing of a tribal chief and a UN peacekeeper on Saturday. “Our president has been in direct contact with president Bashir… they exchanged ideas about this sad incident,” South Sudan‘s Information Minister Barnaba Marial [...]

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