Arab nomads armed Misseriya tribe attacked a convoy of Southerners to the North-South border, said, Tuesday, January 11, the interior minister of South Sudan. "A convoy of returnees from North to South Sudan has been the target of an ambush yesterday to 17 hours [15 hours in Paris] by armed Misseriya.Ten were killed and eighteen injured," he said, at a press conference in Juba, Gier Chuang. The attack occurred at the border of Southern Kordofan and northern Bahr el-Ghazal, the official said. "The convoy consisted of thirty buses and seven trucks. The trucks were looted and buses returned to the north." "The attackers were traveling in about six or seven vehicles and were armed," he said.
"The Misseriya belong to a State and that State shall be responsible for them," said the minister. Misseriya fought in the North-South civil war with the Khartoum government to militias called "Murahilins" ("traveler" in French), and in paramilitary units known as "popular defenses." Authorities now accuse the Southern Sudanese government to use the new Misseriya to destabilize Southern Sudan.
"The South is on the verge of achieving the goal for which he fought for years," Chuang said, adding that the security situation in the rest of southern Sudan was "calm." Clashes since Friday between rival tribes and Arab southern Dinka Ngok Misseriya in the disputed region of Abyei, located on the border between North-South have killed at least thirty-three dead, local officials said.
Participation in the referendum on self-determination of southern Sudan greatly exceeds expectations, organizers announced Tuesday. "It happens very, very well. There is apparently no fear that the 60% is not reached. In fact, we think it will be much higher," said Tuesday Ibrahim Mohamed Khalil, President of the electoral commission.
A quarter or half of registered voters had already voted on the second day in certain offices, "said the lawyer based in Khartoum North. For his deputy Chan Madout Rik, it will not be necessary to extend the voting to be completed Saturday. Four million southern Sudanese, mostly Christian or animist, are called to vote in this referendum, which should result in a split with the North, mostly Muslim.
The first results are expected in early February, after consultation, under the peace accords that ended in 2005 with a half-century of civil war must be declared within a fortnight after that.
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