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The south is on the brink too; Sudan.(Trouble in southern Sudan)(National Congress Party and Sudan People's Liberation Movement's dispute over Abyei)
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The Economist (US)
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May 24, 2008
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Clashes in the middle threaten the entire north-south peace accord
NOBODY seems to know how or why the fighting in Abyei, on Sudan's north-south fault line, began. But everyone knows that if it gets out of hand, the entire peace accord that has kept an edgy calm between north and south for the past three years could dissolve in a bloodbath.
In mid-May, rumours started to spread that a local militiaman in the pay of the northern government in Khartoum had been arrested by the police run by the main southern movement. A government soldier from the north was shot. Within hours, the town of Abyei was reverberating with the clatter of machinegun fire and the crashing of ...
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