Fighting broke out Tuesday and continued Wednesday, March 2 in Sudan between gunmen from the tribe of Arab northerner Misseriya and Dinka Ngok tribe southerner. At least 70 people were killed, villages razed and two in clashes in the disputed area of Abyei, on the outskirts of the northern and southern Sudan, according to Philip Aguer, spokesman of the People's Liberation Army Sudan (SPLA), composed of ex-rebels now head of the army of the semi-autonomous southern Sudan.
North and South mutually accuse the army of the other side of supporting attacks in Abyei. At least 37 people died in January in clashes between Dinka Ngok and Misseriya in Abyei, where a referendum on annexation to the north or south Sudan was postponed indefinitely after a disagreement over the participation of Misseriya.
Wednesday morning, gunmen posing as members of the Misseriya set fire to two villages Dinka, Maker and Wungok in northern Abyei, Barnaba Marial Benjamin said, Southern Minister of Information. "They were completely burned and destroyed," he told reporters. "We fear further attacks." Villagers fled before the assault, authorities said.
Deng Arop Kuol, chief administrator of Abyei, said the fighting was supported by soldiers of the regular army of the North (SAF). Under the 2005 peace agreement that ended more than two decades of war between North and South, the SPLA and the SAF are not allowed to have troops in Abyei. 
North and South mutually accuse the army of the other side of supporting attacks in Abyei. At least 37 people died in January in clashes between Dinka Ngok and Misseriya in Abyei, where a referendum on annexation to the north or south Sudan was postponed indefinitely after a disagreement over the participation of Misseriya.
Wednesday morning, gunmen posing as members of the Misseriya set fire to two villages Dinka, Maker and Wungok in northern Abyei, Barnaba Marial Benjamin said, Southern Minister of Information. "They were completely burned and destroyed," he told reporters. "We fear further attacks." Villagers fled before the assault, authorities said.
Deng Arop Kuol, chief administrator of Abyei, said the fighting was supported by soldiers of the regular army of the North (SAF). Under the 2005 peace agreement that ended more than two decades of war between North and South, the SPLA and the SAF are not allowed to have troops in Abyei.
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