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Sudan: Tribunal Cuts Size of Disputed Abyei Region
allAfrica, 22 July 2009
An international tribunal has cut the size of the disputed Abyei region of Sudan, rejecting the formal claims of both north and south Sudan and slicing at least 18,000 square… Read more »
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Sudan: Court Ruling Will Test Peace Prospects
allAfrica, 20 July 2009
A small piece of land in Sudan and one of the international tribunals based in the Netherlands are about to have a large impact on Sudan's present and future. Read more »
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Sudan: UN Calls on Armed Groups to Leave Abyei
UN News, 18 July 2009
The top United Nations envoy to Sudan today expressed concern over the presence of armed elements in the oil-rich town of Abyei, close to the boundary between the vast African… Read more »
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Sudan: Abyei Briefing
UNIRIN, 21 July 2009
Legal experts in The Hague make a binding decision on 22 July setting the boundaries of Sudan's oil- and pasture-rich Abyei region - ruling on a dispute that has threatened the… Read more »
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Sudan: Abyei Verdict - Flight, Fight, Prayers
Nation, 20 July 2009
A decade and a half ago, Jacob Thon Deng walked several weeks and nearly three hundred kilometres to escape fighting in his home town, Bor - a marshy area at the eastern bank of… Read more »
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Sudan: A Timeline of the Abyei Boundary Dispute
UNIRIN, 21 July 2009
The following is a timeline for the Abyei boundary dispute. Read more »
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Sudan: Boundaries of the Oil-Rich Abyei Region are Finally Due to be Set
UNIRIN, 21 July 2009
The boundaries of Sudan's oil- and pasture-rich Abyei region are finally due to be set on 22 July when experts in The Hague rule on a dispute that has threatened the country's 2005… Read more »