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Description Expressing deep concern over the high number of civilian casualties caused by landmines, explosive war remnants and improvised explosive devices, the Security Council today reiterated its call on belligerents to “immediately and definitively” end the indiscriminate use of such weapons, as senior Government officials debated ways to rid the world of a pernicious legacy. In a presidential statement (S/PRST/2021/8) issued by Viet Nam’s Minister for Foreign Affair...

Thursday, 8 April, 2021 - 05:15 A file photo shows UN peackeeping soldiers in oil-rich Abyei. (AFP) Asharq Al-Awsat Sudan and South Sudan must reach an agreement on the disputed, oil-rich border region of Abyei in order for the UN mission there to conclude, according to Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Abyei has been contested since South Sudan gained independence in 2011 and the United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei ...

Sudan, South Sudan must settle dispute over oil-rich region — UN On Kindly Share This Story: Sudan and South Sudan must reach an agreement on the disputed, oil-rich border region of Abyei in order for the UN mission there to conclude, according to Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Abyei has been contested since South Sudan gained independence in 2011 and the United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA) was deployed after deadly clashes that year displaced some 100,000 people. Ch...

At Security Council Debate, Speakers Call for End to Indiscriminate Use of Improvised Explosive Devices (S/PRST/2021/8) Format Presidential Statement Urges Including Mine Action in Ceasefire, Peace Agreements Expressing deep concern over the high number of civilian casualties caused by landmines, explosive war remnants and improvised explosive devices, the Security Council today reiterated its call on belligerents to “immediately and definitively” end the indiscriminate use of such weapons,...

Timeline 1955 – Prior to Sudan’s independence, conflict breaks out between Muslim Arabs in the north and Christian/Animist Africans in the south. January 1, 1956 – Sudan gains its independence after an agreement between the United Kingdom and Egypt. 1972 – Seventeen years of civil war end with the signing of the Addis Ababa Agreement between the north and the south. 1977 – Oil is discovered in southwestern Sudan. Civil war in the 1980s and 1990s prevents much exploration or developmen...

DUBAI: Sudan called on the United Nations to replace Ethiopian peacekeepers in Abyei with another force from different countries, Foreign Minister Mariam al-Mahdi said on Tuesday. Mahdi made the statement during an interview with the pan-Arab Al-Hadath news channel following the latest round of talks with Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Kinshasa that ended with no progress. The minister claimed that Ethiopia showed “unacceptable intransigence” in the talks over t...

Sudan Fast Facts Here’s a look at Sudan, a North African country bordering the Red Sea, Egypt,Libya, Chad, Central African Republic,South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea. About Sudan Area: 1,861,484 sq km slightly less than one-fifth the size of the United States. Population: 46,751,152 (July 2021 est.) Median age: 18.3 years Unemployment: 19.6% (2017 est.) Other Facts Sudan was the largest country in Africa prior to the secession of South Sudan in 2011. It is now the third largest, after Algeria...

Sudan Fast Facts elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 Here’s a look at Sudan, a North African country bordering the Red Sea, Egypt,Libya, Chad, Central African Republic,South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea. About Sudan Area: 1,861,484 sq km slightly less than one-fifth the size of the United States. Population: 46,751,152 (July 2021 est.) Median age: 18.3 years Unemployment: 19.6% (2017 est.) Other Facts Sudan was the largest country in Africa prior to the secession of South Sudan in 2011. It is n...

DTM Sudan: Registration Factsheet 2020 Format In 2020, DTM registered 76,354 individuals across three states of Darfur and South Kordofan – 39,922 (52%) of which were returnees and 36,432 (48%) internally displaced persons (IDPs). Of the returnee caseload, 98 per cent were returnees from internal displacement and two per cent were returnees from abroad. Through its Flow Monitoring Registry (FMR) component, DTM also registered 5,162 South Sudanese having entered Sudan via Abyei since January 2...

Driver killed, passengers injured in Abyei ambush The driver of a commercial vehicle was killed and several passengers were injured when they were ambushed in the disputed region of Abyei over the weekend. The Paramount Chief of Abyei, Bulabek Deng Kuol, told Radio Tamazuj that the vehicle was heading to the main Amiet market of Abyei town when they were attacked by gunmen.   “It was not an attack on an area but an ambush by armed men on a vehicle that was going to the market in Abyei town,...