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Kuol Diem Kuol, Abyei Chief Administrator addressing reporters in Juba on Friday. [Photo: Radio Tamazuj] South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has this evening constituted a committee to initiate dialogue with the Sudanese government on the final status of the Abyei Administrative Area, a disputed region between Sudan and South Sudan. Kiir appointed the 10 member committee in a presidential decree read on Monday evening on national television.  The committee to be led by the Presidential A...

Description Our colleagues on the ground in Gaza have reported continued Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, as well as outgoing rocket and mortar fire by Palestinian groups into Israel. Turning to Bougainville, the Secretary-General welcomes the beginning, this week, of consultations between the Government of Papua New Guinea and the Autonomous Bougainville Government. Turning to Sudan, the Secretary-General sent a pre-recorded video message to the International Conference to Support ...

Security Council Extends United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2575 (2021) Format SC/14519 The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) until 15 November 2021, maintaining the current ceilings for troops and police. Unanimously adopting resolution 2575 (2021) and acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, the Council urged the Governments of Sudan and South Sudan and...

Leaders in Africa and around the world give lip service to addressing underlying causes of terrorism, violent internal conflicts, criminal violence and other threats. In practice, they prioritize militarized responses that are not only abusive of human rights but also ineffective and counter-productive. African conflicts are most often seen in terms of simplistic narratives and applied to the entire continent. But each country is distinct. Most are at peace, afflicted not by war and warlords, b...

AfricaFocus Bulletins with Material on Politics and Human Rights April 19, 2021  Confronting Global Apartheid Demands Global Solidarity http://www.africafocus.org/docs21/ga2104.php     "The COVID-19 pandemic has both revealed and deepened structural inequalities around the world. Nearly every country has been hit by economic downturn, but the impacts are unevenly felt. Within and across countries, the people who have suffered most are those already disadvantaged by race, class, gender, o...

UN seeks proposals to end force on Sudan-South Sudan border May 11, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend the mandate of the nearly 3,700-strong peacekeeping force in the disputed Abyei region on the Sudan-South Sudan border until Nov. 15. It also asked Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to provide recommendations for reconfiguring and ending the mission, although Guterres informed the council early last month that he couldn’t provide such opt...

May 11, 2021 - 7:57 PM The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend the mandate of the nearly 3,700-strong peacekeeping force in the disputed Abyei region on the Sudan-South Sudan border until Nov. 15. It also asked Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to provide recommendations for reconfiguring and ending the mission, although Guterres informed the council early last month that he couldn’t provide such options because of differences between the two countrie...

UNSC extends UNISFA mandate in Abyei The UN Security Council (UNSC) yesterday extended the mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) until 15 November 2021. The UNSC unanimously adopted RES 2575 (2021) on UNISFA which read in part, "Recognizing that the current situation in Abyei and along the border between Sudan and South Sudan continues to constitute a threat to international peace and security, Decides to extend until 15 November 2021 the mandate of UNISFA."  ...

Article bookmarked Dont show me this message again✕ APTOPIX Israel Palestinians (Copyright 2021The Associated Press All rights reserved) Here are the AP’s latest coverage plans, top stories and promotable content. All times EDT. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s coverage, visit Coverage Plan at https://newsroom.ap.org. _____________ _____________ ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS — Rockets streamed out of Gaza and Israel pounded the territory with airstrikes as the most severe outbreak of vio...

The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution prolonging until November 15 a peacekeeping mission in Abyei, after Sudan and South Sudan failed to reach an agreement on the disputed oil-rich border region, diplomats said.