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At least 26 killed in clashes along Sudan-South Sudan border region
UN Interim Security Force for Abyei strengthens security on the ground after days of deadly fighting.
Al Jazeera•
At least 26 people have been killed and 82 others injured in days of intercommunal fighting in a disputed region on the border between South Sudan and Sudan.
Reporting the death toll on Thursday, the United Nations said it had reinforced its security presence around Abyei town.
Clashes are frequent in Abyei, and the region’s status has remained unresolved since South Sudan gained independence from Sudan and became a nation in 2011.
The Misseriya, Arab pastoralists from Sudan, migrate south into Abyei during the dry season in search of grazing land, sometimes clashing with the Ngok Dinka, the region’s permanent residents.