Sudan: MSF Providing Emergency Medical Services in Abyei

7 March 2011

Abyei — Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF), an international organisation specialising in offering medical services in conflict-affected areas has, on Monday, said it is providing emergency medical assistance to victims of recent territorial conflict in the oil producing region of Abyei.

Heavy fighting which locals and officials from the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), claimed involved the use of tanks and heavy machine guns, mounted on vehicles, took place last week in Abyei, between members of the Arab nomadic tribe of Misseriya and the nine Dinka Ngok cheifdoms. The SPLM governs the would-be independent south Sudan, after declaration on 9 July 2011.

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