Arbitrators to Rule on Disputed Sudan Region - The Associated Press

Date: 
Jul 22, 2009
Author: 
Mike Corder

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- An international arbitration tribunal is ruling Wednesday on the boundaries of a disputed oil rich region on the border between northern and southern Sudan.

The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration's decision on the Abyei region's borders is seen as a major test of the fragile 2005 peace deal that ended more than 20 years of civil war that killed more than 2 million people in Sudan. 

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