Enough 101: What is the Abyei Area and Why is it Disputed?
2013年1月15日 · The Abyei Area covers 4,000 square miles of desert, farmland, and oil fields located along the ill-defined border between Sudan and South Sudan. Abyei is claimed by both countries and has been a source of conflict in the Sudans for over 50 years. Abyei’s rich oil reserves make the region economically desirable to both Sudan and South Sudan.
Abyei - Wikipedia
An important oil pipeline, the Greater Nile Oil Pipeline, travels through the Abyei area from the Heglig and Unity oil fields to Port Sudan on the Red Sea via Khartoum. The pipeline is vital to Sudan’s oil exports which have boomed since the pipeline commenced operation in 1999.
37 people killed in disputed oil-rich African region of Abyei in ...
2024年2月5日 · JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Thirty-seven people were killed over the weekend in fighting apparently tied to a land feud in the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei, an official said Sunday. The bloodshed came a week after 52 people died in a land dispute in the same region.
Ongoing war in Sudan stalls progress in disputed Abyei region
2024年5月7日 · The ongoing conflict between rival militaries in Sudan has stalled progress towards the determination of the final status of the disputed oil-rich Abyei region which straddles the...
Oil rich Abyei fuels Sudan crisis
Control of the Abyei region, where most of Sudan’s estimated 6 billion barrels of oil reserves lie, will mean huge profits for whoever secures the region. Sudan already produces an...
Background Reference: Sudan and South Sudan
The GNPOC pipeline transports Nile blend crude oil from the Heglig oil fields (Blocks 2 and 4) in Sudan and the Thar Jath and Mala oil fields (Block 1 and 5A) in South Sudan to the Bashayer Marine Terminal in Port Sudan for export and to two refineries in El-Obeid and Khartoum for refining and distribution to the domestic market.
Abyei: Sudan’s “Kashmir” - Sudan Tribune
Perhaps no area is more volatile and carries more implications for Sudan’s future than the oil rich region of Abyei — Sudan’s “Kashmir” — astride the boundary between North and South...
Abyei: Sudan, South Sudan in talk over cumulative oil arrears
October 31, 2022 (JUBA) – Sudan and South Sudan are in talks over arrears Juba owes Khartoum from oil produced in the disputed Abyei region, an official said.
52 killed in clashes in the disputed oil-rich African region of Abyei ...
2024年1月28日 · JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Gunmen attacked villagers in the oil-rich region of Abyei claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, leaving at least 52 people dead, including a U.N. peacekeeper, and 64 wounded, a regional official said Sunday.
Understanding Abyei : the oil-rich source of Sudan-South Sudan …
2013年2月1日 · Ownership of the Abyei region, claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, remains a fraught situation that might at any time erupt into armed conflict. Such a conflict, if it should arise, would likely involve neighbouring states and make the crisis regional in nature.