Sudan’s Abyei Strife Overshadows South’s Referendum
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As many as 46 people have died in Sudan’s disputed border region of Abyei in the past five days, casting a shadow over the peaceful voting in oil-rich Southern Sudan’s referendum on independence.
Ten people were killed and 18 wounded yesterday in the area when members of the Misseriya tribe, which backs President Umar al-Bashir’s government in Khartoum, ambushed a convoy of 37 vehicles carrying Southern Sudanese returning from the north, the south’s interior minister, Gier Chuang Aluong, told reporters today in Juba, the regional capital.