{"id":9646,"date":"2012-04-05T03:50:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T01:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/uns-ban-pleads-for-sudan-s-sudan-to-leave-abyei\/"},"modified":"2012-04-05T03:50:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T01:50:53","slug":"uns-ban-pleads-for-sudan-s-sudan-to-leave-abyei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/uns-ban-pleads-for-sudan-s-sudan-to-leave-abyei\/","title":{"rendered":"UN’s Ban pleads for Sudan, S.Sudan to leave Abyei"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n

* South Sudan seceded from Sudan last year<\/span><\/p>\n

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* Analysts fear full-blown Sudan-South Sudan war<\/p>\n

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By Michelle Nichols<\/p>\n

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UNITED NATIONS, April 4 (Reuters) – U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon
\npleaded with Sudan and South Sudan on Wednesday to withdraw
\ntroops and police from the disputed Abyei region amid
\ninternational fears that repeated border clashes between the
\nEast African neighbors could escalate to war.<\/p>\n

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Sudan and South Sudan both claim Abyei, a border region
\ncontaining fertile grazing land, which Khartoum took in May last
\nyear – triggering the exodus of tens of thousands of civilians –
\nafter a southern attack on an army convoy.<\/p>\n

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“The continued presence of unauthorized security forces
\nwithin the Abyei area is fundamentally at odds with the spirit
\nof constructive dialogue and mutual accommodation,” U.N.
\nSecretary-General Ban said in a report to the U.N. Security
\nCouncil on the situation in the Abyei over the past two months.<\/p>\n

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“I would like once again to appeal to the government of
\nSudan and the government of South Sudan to withdraw their armed
\nforces and police from the Abyei area,” he said in the report.<\/p>\n

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South Sudan seceded from Sudan in July, six months after a
\nreferendum agreed under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of
\ncivil war that killed more than 2 million people. Such a vote
\nwas originally also planned in Abyei but was never held as both
\nsides have been unable to agree on who can participate.<\/p>\n

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There are 3,800 U.N. peacekeepers in Abyei after the
\nSecurity Council authorized the deployment in June last year.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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