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Last Updated: May 3, 2008 - 12:25:25 PM |
The fighting broke out in the Kailak-Kharasana area in southern Kordofan
province. Claimed by both north and south, the area has become a potential
flashpoint that could wreck the fragile peace between the ethnic African south
and Sudan`s Arab-dominated government in the capital Khartoum.
The north and south fought a 21-year civil war that ended with a peace
agreement in 2005 that resulted in an autonomous government in the south.
The latest fighting erupted after local Misseriah Arab tribesmen attacked a
garrison of southern forces whom they maintain should not be in the disputed
region.
The state minister for humanitarian affairs, Ahmed Mohammed Haroun, told the
official Sudanese News Agency, SUNA, that calm had returned to the area after a
six-man committee, including northern and southern officials, brokered an
agreement.
Source:Ocnus.net 2008
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