Sudan ‘launches new air strikes against South Sudan’

The UN order urges both sides to pull their troops back at least six miles
from the north-south border that was in place on January 1, 1956, when Sudan
won independence from Britain.

The demand, which carried a deadline of Tuesday night, is in line with
agreements made by Sudan and South Sudan for a monitored demilitarised zone,
which they have failed to implement.

The demilitarised zone would be monitored by observers from both sides, with
security and other support provided by the UN’s Interim Security Force for
Abyei (UNISFA), which is based in the contested region of Abyei. South Sudan
said that it, too, had complied with the order, but that Khartoum had
effectively ripped up the agreement by carrying out the aerial bombardment.

The two countries face international sanctions if they do not return to
African Union-brokered peace talks by May 16.

Each has accused the other of aggression and military offensives apparently
aimed at securing more territory than was agreed when South Sudan split from
Sudan in July last year.

Despite that successful secession, deals were not in place over citizenship,
national debt and sharing oil wealth â “ eventually the trigger for the
current military crisis.

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