Sudan Dispatch: Exhausted By Diplomacy

Abyei, Sudan—In news coverage, the recent violence in Abyei, a contested border region between northern and southern Sudan, has attracted shorthand references to the region as “Sudan’s Kashmir.” But this is a label Kuol Deng Kuol, paramount chief of the Ngok Dinka, the southern ethnic group that lives in Abyei, strongly rejects. Far from being an intractable problem, Kuol says the international community—in particular, the United States—could “solve Abyei tomorrow” if it would just help implement existing agreements and stop trying to create new ones.  Read the rest of the article as it appeared . . .