The houses of residents in Abyei that Sudanese forces looted and burned. United Nations (UN) investigations related to the outbreak of the bloody clashes in the area of the oil-rich Sudan, South Kordofan.The tension in the region increased towards southern Sudan formally became an independent State next July.
A number of problems often trigger tension such as the question of the position of the borders and the future of the region of Abyei.
UN officials in Sudan said a group of gunmen robbing weapons from a police station in the capital of South Kordofan, Kadugli.
A few hours later happens Shootout in a village which is 48km of Kadugli.
Although there are two of these facts, but not yet certain whether the two events were related.
South Kordofan is actually under the control of the Sudan, but many settled in this place Sudanese civil war veterans, especially those from southern Sudan.
The governing party in southern Sudan, The Sudan Liberation Movement (SPLM) was out of the military of Sudan North as the cause of the clashes.
Southern Sudan says clashes that involved the Army North against orders to disarm the armed forces of the South.
Some observers say the Government in Khartoum of trying to accumulate their assets across the border towards the independence of southern Sudan, next July.
The South Sudan Independence Referendum last January was the result of the peace agreement of 2005 that ended the civil war.
On 21 may, armed militia and Northern troops entered the border Abyei remains disengketakan. Tens of thousands of people took refuge when their homes were looted and burned.
Meanwhile Khartoum not to heed the appeal of the UNITED NATIONS Security Council to withdraw its forces from Abyei.
