Original title: Clashes in disputed areas between South Sudan and Sudan have killed more than 50 people.
Nairobi, January 29 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan confirmed on January 29 that violent clashes broke out in the disputed Abyei area on the border between South Sudan and Sudan on the 27th, killing more than 50 people, including women, children and two UN peacekeepers, and injuring many others.
A youth armed group in South Sudan's Warab region has clashed with the local Ngok Dinka ethnic group in Abyei, and the two sides have been fighting for land in the border area for years, South Sudan's South Sudanese side Manyele told Xinhua News Agency. The youth armed group has also been involved in a number of attacks, injuring dozens of people.
The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) condemned the violent clashes that took place in the Abyei area on the 27th, saying that the clashes had killed two UN peacekeepers. At present, the UNSMA forces are continuing to further verify the number of killed, injured and displaced persons in the violence, as well as to evacuate civilians.
The Abyei region covers an area of about 10,000 square kilometers and is one of the disputed areas between Sudan and South Sudan. In June 2011, the UN Security Council decided to establish the United Nations Security Force (UNISF) to oversee the withdrawal of Sudan and South Sudan from the Abyei region.
*:Xinhua.