Sources: Deutsche Welle
Thirty-seven people are killed during fights over a suspected land feud in the disputed region of Abyei on the border between South Sudan and Sudan. 2024-02-4
Six people are killed during an ambush in the Abyei region, an area disputed between Sudan and South Sudan. 2024-01-1
A peace deal is signed between Sudan's transitional government and the Sudan Revolutionary Front in South Sudan's capital Juba, raising hopes of peace after nearly 18 years of civil wars in the country. According to the agreement, the states Blue Nile, South Kordofan, and West Kordofan will be granted self-rule. The deal does not, however, include two major belligerent groups, the SPLM–N and SLM-A. 2020-08-31
The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan, Omar al-Bashir and Salva Kiir Mayardit, respectively, will meet in Addis Ababa to convene for talks regarding escalating tensions is response to Sudan's recent seizure of Abyei. 2013-01-4
Security officials in Sudan arrest three Catholic aid workers and close down the office of Caritas in South Darfur as the three were traveling to South Sudan. 2012-04-24
Sudan says that after a battle South Sudan controls Heglig, its largest oil field. 2012-04-11
Sudan and South Sudan sign a pact to demilitarise the disputed Abyei region and to permit the presence of Ethiopian peacekeeping forces. 2011-06-20
The ruling Sudan People's Liberation Army-Movement in Southern Sudan formally confirms that it will support secession from Sudan in a January 2011 independence referendum. 2010-12-11