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Article: Abyei Arbitration: What Next.
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- Sudan Tribune (Sudan)
- Article date:
- May 11, 2009
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By Steve Paterno May 10, 2009 -- Abyei is a region in Sudan considered by some individuals and opinion makers as a bridge between the South and North of the country. Others see it as the Kashmir of Sudan given the intensity of claims over it by both sides. Whatsoever, Abyei is home to Ngok Dinka whose deep traditional ties is with the rest of the Dinka ethnicity in the South--the area that has become politically volatile between the Sudan People Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), a ruling party in the South with an army, and the regime of National Congress Party (NCP) in Khartoum. Historically, Abyei area belonged to the nine Ngok Dinka chiefdoms in Bahr el-Ghazal region ...