Sudanese police clashed with farmers in the country’s agricultural heartland on Wednesday. Witnesses said police used batons to break up a group of about 400 farmers in Gezira state. The protesters gathered at the headquarters of the Gezira Scheme, a vast state-run farming project south of Khartoum and between the Blue and White Nile rivers. […]
North Sudan Proposes Solution to Abyei Crisis
Posted June 1st, 2011 at 8:30 am (UTC-5)
North Sudan’s government has laid out proposals for resolving its dispute with the south over the oil-rich Abyei region. North Sudanese forces occupied Abyei on May 21, prompting tens of thousands of residents to flee the area, and raising fears the north and south could return to civil war. The government now says northern and […]
UN Refugee Agency Concerned About Sudan’s Abyei Region
Posted June 1st, 2011 at 4:10 am (UTC-5)
The United Nations refugee agency says it is concerned that the number of displaced people in Sudan’s Abyei region could rise after a recent outbreak in fighting. The UNHCR said Tuesday the security situation in the region remains precarious a week after fighting erupted involving forces from both north and south Sudan. The agency said […]
