South Sudan Withdraws from Abyei Meeting in Addis AbabaAugust 23, 2017 - Sudan’s joint oversight committee on Abyei said South Sudan has withdrawn from a joint meeting in Addis Ababa which was supposed to be held on 17 August. Efforts to reach the South Sudan’s committee to comment on the matter were not successful. The Abyei Area is an area of 10,546 km2 or 4,072 sq m in Sudan accorded "special administrative status" by the 2004 Protocol on the Resolution of the Abyei Conflict (Abyei Protocol) in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the Second Sudanese Civil War. The capital of Abyei Area is Abyei Town. Under the terms of the Abyei Protocol, the Abyei Area was declared, on an interim basis, to be simultaneously part of the states of South Kurdufan and Northern Bahr el Ghazal.

Source: Ethiopian News August 24, 2017 02:26 UTC