Letter from Abyei: where a new Sudanese civil war could begin

“We have been made promises time and time again” said Deng Arop, the chief administrator of Sudan’s contested Abyei region, referring to the many unimplemented international agreements on the status of this area straddling what may soon be the border between North and South Sudan. “What options do the people of Abyei have left?” he asked me as he juggled incoming security updates on two cell phones.  Read the rest of the article as it appeared . . .