<p>Juba: More than 50 people, including women and children, were killed in attacks along South Sudan's border with Sudan, a local official said on Monday, in the deadliest incident in a spate of attacks since 2021 related to a boundary dispute.</p><p>Armed youth from South Sudan's Warrap State carried out the raids into the neighbouring Abyei region, said Bulis Koch, the Information Minister for Abyei.</p><p>Abyei is an oil-rich area that is jointly administered by South Sudan and Sudan, which have both staked claims to it.</p><p>Koch told <em>Reuters</em> that 52 people, among them women, children and police officers, were killed during the attacks on Saturday. A further 64 people were wounded.</p><p>"Because of the current dire security situation at hand, which has created fears and panic we have imposed a curfew," he said.</p>.Ethnic killings in Sudan city leaves up to 15,000 dead: UN report.<p>A Ghanaian peacekeeper from a United Nations force based in Abyei was killed when its base in Agok town was attacked amid the violence, the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) said on Sunday.</p><p>Koch said that hundreds of displaced civilians had sought shelter at a UNISFA base.</p><p>William Wol, Warrap State's Information Minister, said that his government would conduct a joint investigation with the Abyei administration.</p><p>There have been repeated clashes in Abyei between rival factions of the Dinka ethnic group related to the location of administrative boundary that is a source of significant tax revenues.</p><p>Koch said that Dinka youth from Warrap and the forces of a rebel leader from the Nuer ethnic group carried out the attacks against Dinkas and Nuers in Abyei.</p><p>Civil war in South Sudan, fought largely along ethnic lines between Dinkas and Nuers, caused hundreds of thousands of deaths between 2013 and 2018.</p><p>Since then, routine clashes among a patchwork of armed groups have continued to kill and displace large numbers of civilians. Fighting in Abyei in November killed at least 32 people. </p>
<p>Juba: More than 50 people, including women and children, were killed in attacks along South Sudan's border with Sudan, a local official said on Monday, in the deadliest incident in a spate of attacks since 2021 related to a boundary dispute.</p><p>Armed youth from South Sudan's Warrap State carried out the raids into the neighbouring Abyei region, said Bulis Koch, the Information Minister for Abyei.</p><p>Abyei is an oil-rich area that is jointly administered by South Sudan and Sudan, which have both staked claims to it.</p><p>Koch told <em>Reuters</em> that 52 people, among them women, children and police officers, were killed during the attacks on Saturday. A further 64 people were wounded.</p><p>"Because of the current dire security situation at hand, which has created fears and panic we have imposed a curfew," he said.</p>.Ethnic killings in Sudan city leaves up to 15,000 dead: UN report.<p>A Ghanaian peacekeeper from a United Nations force based in Abyei was killed when its base in Agok town was attacked amid the violence, the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) said on Sunday.</p><p>Koch said that hundreds of displaced civilians had sought shelter at a UNISFA base.</p><p>William Wol, Warrap State's Information Minister, said that his government would conduct a joint investigation with the Abyei administration.</p><p>There have been repeated clashes in Abyei between rival factions of the Dinka ethnic group related to the location of administrative boundary that is a source of significant tax revenues.</p><p>Koch said that Dinka youth from Warrap and the forces of a rebel leader from the Nuer ethnic group carried out the attacks against Dinkas and Nuers in Abyei.</p><p>Civil war in South Sudan, fought largely along ethnic lines between Dinkas and Nuers, caused hundreds of thousands of deaths between 2013 and 2018.</p><p>Since then, routine clashes among a patchwork of armed groups have continued to kill and displace large numbers of civilians. Fighting in Abyei in November killed at least 32 people. </p>