Sudan/ South Sudan/ Abyei: WBeG’s Abyei Community Rejects Moves to Include Region in Sudan Elections

Nov 2, 2014 | Sudan Tribune
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Western Bahr el Ghazal’s Abyei community have denounced provocative moves by Sudan’s election commission include the contested region in its upcoming election next year.

In a petition handed to the state and central government and copied to the Abyei area administration, the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (NMISS), the community rejected any proposal that goes against the results of the referendum conducted last year.

The community has criticised the lack of progress since the signing of a roadmap for peace, saying the region continues to witness incidents of unrest, citing the killing of Ngok Dinka paramount chief Kuol Deng Kuol, who was gunned down after an Un concoy he was travelling in was ambushed last May.