Sudan on brink of ‘full-scale’ war

ARMED men burned and looted the flashpoint town of Abyei yesterday, as Southern Sudan’s military said the northern army is moving to carry out a “full-scale war” in the region.

Violence flared late last week in Abyei, a no-man’s land between north and south Sudan that is threatening to send the two sides back to war.

Southern Sudan voted in January to secede from the south, and the region will become an independent country on July 9. But violence in Abyei is overshadowing the march toward independence.