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Violence in disputed Sudan-South Sudan border area kills 54

Violence in disputed Sudan-South Sudan border area kills 54

MORE than 50 people including women, children and two U.N. peacekeepers were killed in attacks along South Sudan's border with Sudan, officials said, the deadliest in a spate of incidents since 2021 related to a boundary dispute. Armed young men from South Sudan's Warrap State carried out the raids into the neighbouring Abyei region on Saturday, Bulis Koch, the information minister for Abyei, said on Monday. Abyei is an oil-rich area jointly administered by South Sudan and Sudan, which have both staked claims. Koch told Reuters that 52 local people, among them women, children and police officers, were killed during…
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