On Eve of Sudan Split Clashes Continue
…ir own in oil-rich South Kordofan. And in Abyei, there were direct clashes between the SPLM and the Sudanese army in late May. I last saw William on a kibbutz in Israel, where he was seeking asylum. It was three days before the January 2011 referendum in which the Southern Sudanese voted to secede from the North. While his friends in Tel Aviv were revving up to rally for independence, William told me it’s not an occasion to celebrate; it’s a time…
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