The referendum will decide whether Abyei will join Southern Sudan or will remain part of South Kordofan state (administratively part of the North). Trouble in Abyei has the potential to upset the ...

This project looks at histories of local peace-making in South Sudan over time. We do this through a collection of smaller research projects by a variety of researchers. This includes research on ...

June 21, 2024 (JUBA) – South Sudan has excluded Abyei from the electoral process, citing its status uncertainty and the prevailing security situation in the disputed region. The status of Abyei ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Sudan will keep police forces in the disputed Abyei region bordering South Sudan for now, the state news agency SUNA ...

Two armed groups raided Abyei on Saturday, local authorities said. The day after, peacekeepers came under fire when transporting affected civilians to hospital, the UN said. South Sudan and Sudan ...

The Abyei Area is a border area between South Sudan and Sudan that has been granted "special administrative status" by the 2004 Protocol on the Resolution of the Abyei Conflict (Abyei Protocol ...

The resolution extends the UNISFA mandate in the disputed* Abyei border region between Sudan and South Sudan until November 15, 2025. Explaining her position, the Russian delegate remarked ...

the potential role of South Sudan under the leadership of President Salva Kiir in facilitating Sudanese peace, and the repatriation of Abyei natives displaced and stranded in RSF-controlled areas.

Violence has uprooted thousands of people in the Abyei Region, which lies on the border between Sudan and South Sudan. Many of them, like South Sudanese Adut Monywiir, were forced to flee with ...