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The UN Security Council on Thursday issued a resolute statement condemning a series of attacks in the disputed territory of Abyei on January 27 and 28.

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South Sudan: At least 75 people killed including three children as violence surges in Abyei

The increased violence in Abyei has forced President Salva Kiir and his first deputy to call for a joint security meeting over rising humanitarian crisis.

As of November 30 last year, 6,247 Nepali personnel were serving in conflict zones.

Violence is common in the oil-rich territory, with 54 people killed last week alone, including two UN peacekeepers.

Nineteen people, one of them a humanitarian worker, were killed in ethnic clashes over the weekend in the Abyei region straddling the border between Sudan and South Sudan and claimed by both, local authorities said.

About 40 people, many of them civilians, have been killed in violence in a disputed area on South Sudan's border with Sudan over the weekend, a government official said on Monday.

Fighting between local groups in western South Sudan has killed at least 26 people, officials said on Tuesday,

Fighting between local groups in western South Sudan has killed at least 26 people, officials said on Tuesday, as the countrys president and vice president called for an end to rising inter-communal violence.More than 150 people have been killed since last week in separate conflicts that have pitte