Violence on new South Sudan-Sudan border catches UN in the middle

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By Alan Boswell NAIROBI, Kenya — The new nation of South Sudan faced another armed challenge on Friday as a rebel group aligned with rival Sudan to the north threatened United Nations peacekeepers, accusing them of assisting the South Sudanese army in ..

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Security Council deplores failure by Sudan and South Sudan to withdraw forces from Abyei

Amb. José Filipe Moraes Cabral

4 November 2011 –

The Security Council today deplored the failure by the governments of Sudan and South Sudan to redeploy their troops from the disputed Abyei area and urged the two countries to do so immediately and without preconditions.“The Members of the Security Council underscore that there were no preconditions for the implementations of the agreements signed by the parties including the withdrawal of forces,” the Council said in a press statement read out by Ambassador José Filipe Moraes Cabral of Portugal, which holds the presidency of the Security Council this month.http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40317&Cr=abyei&Cr1=

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