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12 killed in contested border region in Sudan

By AFP
May 18, 2021

JUBA: Twelve civilians have been killed in a contested oil-rich border region claimed by Sudan and South Sudan in what local government officials said on Monday was a massacre by nomadic herdsmen. The attack took place early Sunday at a village some 64-km east of the main town in Abyei, a disputed region under UN protection since South Sudan gained independence in 2011.