With Rejection Of U.S. Reconciliation Efforts, Civil War Now Looms In Sudan

Referendum Dispute in Sudan's Abyei Region Threatening U.S.-Brokered Peace -- Bloomberg

Sudan’s border region of Abyei is bracing for conflict as a deadlock over a referendum to decide the area’s status is straining a U.S.-brokered peace agreement in 2005 that ended Africa’s longest-running civil war.

Abyei’s residents are scheduled to decide in a Jan. 9 plebiscite whether to join Sudan’s north or south. The ballot is now in jeopardy, with President Umar al-Bashir’s government in Khartoum, the capital, and the former rebels of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in the south, unable to agree on who can vote.

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