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Sudan pulls troops from oil-rich region

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30-05-2012 | 05:03

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Sudan withdrew its army Tuesday from the disputed Abyei border region that contains rich oil fields and is contested by neighboring South Sudan, handing it over to U.N. forces, the United Nations said.

The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Abyei confirmed that the withdrawal of the Sudanese Armed Forces from the Abyei area was completed late Tuesday evening local time, Kieran Dwyer, spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping department in New York, told The Associated Press.

The Sudan Media Center, a semiofficial media agency, also reported the pullout and quoted Al-Khair al-Faheem Mekki, co-chairman of the committee that oversaw the handover, as saying Ethiopian troops would fill the vacuum and maintain security.

The decision to pull the military out of Abyei comes as Sudanese officials were scheduled to meet with their South Sudanese counterparts Tuesday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

The talks followed an escalation in fighting between the two sides last month.

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