region experiences frequent bouts of violence, where rival factions of the Dinka ethnic group-Twic

Abyei is an oil-rich area that is jointly administered by South Sudan and Sudan, which have both staked claims to it.... A Ghanaian peacekeeper from a United Nations force based in Abyei was killed when its base in the town of Agok was attacked amid the violence, the U.N. Interim Security Force for Abyei( UNISFA) said on Sunday.... In further violence a day later, a second peacekeeper, from Pakistan, was killed and four of his colleagues and a civilian wounded while transporting civilians from