Peacekeepers, Sudan soldiers attacked in Abyei: U.N. (Reuters)

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Unknown grouping attacked a convoy of Federal African soldiers and U.N. peacekeepers in Sudan's Abyei criticality region, harm two, the United Nations said Friday.

The southward irresistibly voted to tell independence from the mostly Islamic northerly in a referendum in Jan but tensions hit shapely up in Abyei, an oil-producing abut location claimed by both sides.

A convoy of Federal African soldiers escorted by U.N. peacekeepers came low blast on their way to Goli, northerly of Abyei town, late Thursday, said a spokesman for the U.N. Mission in Soudan (UNMIS), adding that the attackers were unknown.

The African grey said it distant the right to move to this "aggression," according to a brief alert carried by land programme authority SUNA. It gave no more details.

The peacekeepers had escorted digit companies of the African grey as part of an commendation between northerly and southward to withdraw every unlicensed forces from both sides beyond a render force, the UNMIS spokesman said.

Under earlier agreements, exclusive special render north-south police and grey units are questionable to patrol Abyei. But both sides hit shapely up removed personnel and heavy weapons, according to equipment images and the United Nations.

Earlier this month, at small 14 grouping were killed in clashes between Federal and southern forces in Abyei. Both sides blamed each other for play the violence.

Last month, Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said he would not discern southward Soudan as an autarkical land unless it gave up a claim on Abyei, made in the south's draft constitution.

Sudan's northerly and southward hit fought for every but a few years since 1955 over oil, ethnicity, belief and ideology. The conflict, which ended with a 2005 pact deal, killed an estimated 2 meg grouping and destabilized such of easterly Africa.

Abyei residents were also questionable to hit a referendum in Jan over whether to tie the northerly or south. But disputes over who could balloting derailed that ballot and talks over the status of the location hit stalled.

(Reporting by Ulf Laessing, Editing by David Stamp)

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