It was the deadliest incident in a spate of assaults since 2021 within the oil-rich Abyei border area.
Dozens are reported to have been killed in assaults in a disputed area between Sudan and South Sudan.
General, 52 individuals, together with girls and kids, died within the Abyei area in the course of the weekend, native officers mentioned on Monday. Each Sudan and South Sudan declare the oil-rich area alongside their shared border.
Bulis Koch, the knowledge minister for Abyei, reported that armed youth from South Sudan’s Warrap state carried out raids into neighbouring Abyei on Saturday.
It was the deadliest incident in a spate of assaults since 2021 associated to the boundary dispute. In addition to these killed, 64 individuals have been wounded within the assault.
A Ghanaian peacekeeper from the United Nations Interim Safety Pressure for Abyei (UNISFA) was killed when its base in Agok city was attacked amid the violence, the UN power mentioned on Sunday.
“Due to the present dire safety scenario at hand, which has created fears and panic, we’ve got imposed a curfew,” Koch mentioned.
Tensions have soared amid current clashes in Abyei between rival factions of the Dinka ethnic group associated to the situation of an administrative boundary that could be a supply of serious tax revenues.
Koch mentioned Dinka youth from Warrap and the forces of a insurgent chief from the Nuer ethnic group carried out the assaults towards Dinkas and Nuers in Abyei.
Lots of of civilians are actually sheltering at a UNISFA base.
William Wol, Warrap state’s info minister, mentioned his authorities would coordinate a joint investigation with the Abyei administration to look into the lethal incident.
Between 2013 and 2018, civil battle in South Sudan killed 1000’s as combating flared between Dinkas and Nuers.
Clashes between numerous armed teams have continued to kill and displace massive numbers of civilians, particularly after South Sudan deployed troops to Abyei final March.
The Abyei area’s possession standing was left unresolved after South Sudan turned unbiased from Sudan in 2011.
An African Union panel proposed a referendum for the oil-rich territory however there was disagreement over who may vote.
