At least 32 dead and 20 wounded in armed attacks in the troubled region claimed by South Sudan and Sudan
A series of attacks in Abyei (or Abigail in French), an oil-rich region claimed by Sudan and South Sudan, has killed 32 people, including women, children and a blue-collar worker, a local official said.
The attacks were committed yesterday Sunday in two counties from paramilitaries and soldiers in their uniforms armed forces of South Sudan,
“During these attacks 32 people were killed, among them children and women who burned inside their hutsand (others) more than 20 were injured,” said Boulis Koch Aguar Ajith, Abyei’s Minister of Information and South Sudan’s representative for that province, in a press release issued Sunday night.
“A soldier of the United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei (ss. UNISFA in English, FISNUA in French) was killed and another wounded,” he added in his statement, without elaborating.
South Sudan called for an urgent investigation into these “barbaric attacks on civilians”.
Abyei Province, on the Sudan/South Sudan border, remains a source of tension since the latter’s independence in 2011.
Earlier this month, a United Nations special envoy expressed concern that fighting in Sudan’s power war is moving closer to the border with South Sudan, especially in Abyei.
The approaching fighting in Abyei threatens to destabilize the already fragile region, while the ongoing conflict in Sudan has “virtually suspended” the two states’ talks on the long-disputed region, Hanna Tete said. the Ghanaian UN Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa.
In Sudan, the war which broke out on April 15 between the head of the armed forces and de facto leader of the country, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the former second-in-command of the military regime turned enemy, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, it has claimed the lives of over 10,000 peopleaccording to calculations by the non-governmental organization ACLED, however this number is characterized by many observers as extremely underestimated.
The UN Security Council this month voted unanimously to extend the 4,000-strong peacekeeping mission in Abyei, established 12 years ago.
Source :Skai
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