I. Abyei, an area in the border part of North and South Sudan. The conflict here is that, the Abyei claimed by both North and South Sudan, more than 50 years of conflict until now. They believed that Abyei is part of South Sudan since the declaration of its 1965 independence. It’s also considered as part of Abyei District known before as West Kordofan, now South Kordofan of Northern part of South Sudan. It happened for the past centuries that the inhabitants of Abyei was from Ngok Dinka, Dinka group from South Sudan. Ngok Dinka from South was transferred to North by the 1905 British colonial administration for the protections from barbaric raids. The Messiria, Arab nomadic people and from Sudan also, happened to be inhabitants of Abyei during dry seasons before. The First Sudanese Civil War of 1955 to 1872, Ngok Dinka and Messiria joined the said war between the North and the South where Ngok Dinka was favored to Anyaya, South Sudanese, while Messiria was favored to Khartoum of North Sudan. The conflict turns into many destructions and effects, like conflict with ethnic people that led mass killing of Ngok Dinka, their cultural, citizenship, and linguistic claims, the …show more content…
Here, they established the Abyei Borders Commission to evaluate the conflict claims of territory where they present reports regarding the disputes. As part of CPA, the Abyei was scheduled for its referendum on 2011 where people will vote and decide the administration they will be part of. It is also included in the Abyei Protocol to have its new jurisdiction under the special administrative region that will remain until the referendum, Abyei Area Administration established on August 2008. But the agreement was violated and led to another war. In January 2011, they held the said referendum in South Sudan that led to its