Sudan: NCP Warns Against Dangers of Arms Proliferation in Abyei

15 March 2014

Khartoum — An unidentified armed group killed and abducted several Sudanese herders besides looting 13,000 cattle in the troubled South Sudan's state of Upper Nile.

The Sudanese ruling National Congress Party (NCP) said that arms proliferation in the contested Abyei area represent a real danger to peace efforts, pointing that absence of a local administration turned the area into a centre for armed groups and militias.

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