In this Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008 file photo, a woman walks past destroyed huts and buildings in the still largely deserted town of Abyei, southern Sudan, on the day it was visited by U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes. An intense flare-up of tribal clashes in southern Sudan over the last three months has killed about 900 people and could threaten an election crucial to the 2005 peace deal that ended two decades of civil war with the north, according to aid workers and U.N. officials Thursday May 21 2009. (AP Photo/Sarah El Deeb, File)From Yahoo News/AP:
CAIRO – An intense flare-up of tribal clashes in southern Sudan over the last three months has killed about 900 people and could threaten upcoming elections crucial to preserving the 2005 peace deal that ended two decades of civil war with the north, aid workers and U.N. officials said.
If violence keeps up at the rate of the last few months, the fighting over cattle and territory is on pace to claim more lives this year than Sudan's separate ongoing conflict in the western region of Darfur.
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My Comment: The South Sudan has a history of bloodshed that equals the carnage that has (and is) occurring in The Congo. They have had peace for the past few years .... but with oil being discovered and developed in the region ... expect old animosities and hatreds to perk up again.
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