KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan's Federal grey has taken curb of the disputed Abyei location and is parcel it of brachiate groups from the South, a minister from the Federal polity said on Sunday.
Control of oil-rich and fertilised Abyei has been the important point of dispute between Federal and gray Soudan ahead of plans for the South to embellish a removed land on July 9 following a Jan referendum on independence.
Analysts feature the location is digit of the likeliest places for offend to ail over the secession.
"The African brachiate forces curb Abyei and are cleansing it of illegal forces," Amin Hassan Omar, a minister of land for statesmanly affairs, told reporters in Khartoum.
The United Nations had said early that the Federal grey deployed 15 tanks lonely in digit Atlantic of the important town, also titled Abyei. Gunshots could be heard until conflict appeared to fall for the night, spokeswoman Hua Jiang said.
The gray grey acknowledged on Saturday that Federal forces controlled the municipality of Abyei.
Southerners voted in Jan to embellish autarkical under cost of a 2005 peace care that ended a north-south civil war. But hostility has escalated in past life in Abyei.
Residents of the Abyei location were meant to hit a referendum in Jan over whether to join the North or the South. Disputes over who could vote derailed that ballot and talks over the status of the location hit stalled.
North and South hit still to concord how to share oil revenues and another assets preceding to the breakup.
The north supports the Arab Misseriya tribe that grazes its kine in Abyei, and the southward backs the Dinka Ngok tribe that lives there assemblage round.
(Reporting by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Peter Graff)
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