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Vietnam’s Engineering Unit Rotation 1 and Level-2 Field Hospital Rotation 4 departed for the UN peacekeeping missions in Abyei and South Sudan on April 27.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Up to 550 Ethiopian peacekeepers working in Sudan have sought asylum rather than return home for fear they will be persecuted due to their Tigrayan ethnicity, an official with direct knowledge of the plan said on Tuesday.

Download logoTens of thousands of people have fled to Twic County, South Sudan where they have settled in displacement sites which lack basic necessities;

By Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Up to 550 Ethiopian peacekeepers working in Sudan have sought asylum rather than return home for fear they will...

Local communities in the contested Abyei Administrative Area on the South Sudan-Sudan border over the weekend conducted prayers for the victims and to comfort the families of those killed and the people of the region following recent clashes.

Official reactions in Africa to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have varied dramatically from country to country. While stopping short of implementing sanctions, most African countries condemned Russia’s invasion in a March 2 U.N. General Assembly vote. A sizeable minority, however, abstained or subtly displayed solidarity with Moscow. Such polarization can be seen in the differing postures of Libya and Sudan.

More than 500 UN peacekeepers from Ethiopias war-torn Tigray region have refused to return home, citing fears for their safety and highlighting deepening ethnic fissures as they request political asylum in Sudan. Until last year, Ethiopian forces accounted for the vast majority of the around 4,000- ..

Over 500 UN peacekeepers from Tigray refused to return home, citing fears for their safety and highlighting deepening ethnic fissures as they request political asylum in Sudan

Although the overall security situation in the disputed Abyei region between Sudan and South Sudan has remained calm, the “trust deficit” betwe

Security Council hears of ‘trust deficit’ in disputed Abyei region