Climate-related Security Issues along Sudan-South Sudan Border

 The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute published on 23 September 2021 an analysis titled "Abyei Offers Lessons for the Region on Climate-related Security Risks" by Kheira Tarif, Emilie Broek, and Katongo Seyuba.  

The conflict in the Sudan-South Sudan border area of Abyei offers valuable lessons for UN peacekeeping operations on the importance of recognizing and responding to climate-related security risks.  Climate factors complicate the security situation.  

Sudan/South Sudan: Looming Crisis in Abyei

The !Enough Project published on 13 March 2014 an analysis titled "Looming Crisis: Open Wounds in Abyei Increase Risk of New War" by Maiwen Dot Pheot.  The author writes that armed youth and dissatisfied cadres within the South Sudanese army in the area seem to be interested in provoking a confrontation, both with the nomadic Misseriya who graze their animals in Abyei and the Sudanese government. 

Sudan, South Sudan and Abyei

The Sudd Institute, an independent research organization based in Juba, published on 29 October 2013 an analysis titled "Abyei Final Status: A Mismanaged and Unyielding Stalemate" by Zacharia Diing Akol, director of training at the Sudd Institute. 

The analysis concludes that the only way to break the deadlock over Abyei is for the African Union and especially the AU Peace and Security Council to endorse the proposal of the AU High Level Implementation Panel, which is under the chairmanship of former South African president Thabo Mbeki.  This proposal called for the long-delayed referendum on the future of Abyei to take place in October 2013.