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Jan 10 2011
Sudan Vote Comes Amid Renewed Border Fighting
Amid Sudan’s historic referendum on Southern independence, renewed fighting is taking place in an area claimed by both the North and the South.
The Abyei area, where the skirmishes broke out on Friday and Saturday, is considered the most combustible and intractable of all the disputed areas. Both the north and the south claim historic ties to it and are refusing to budge. Some Western analysts have called Abyei “Sudan’s Jerusalem.”
Wars of Sudan history at http://historyguy.com/wars_of_sudan.htm
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