Deal agreed on Sudan oil region

A deal has been reached between north and south Sudan over the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei. The two sides have agreed on an interim administration with a southerner named as chief administrator and a member of a local Arab clan as his deputy. Fighting in May between northern and southern troops drove 50,000 people from their homes in the region. Many feared the violence would re-ignite the bloody civil war that ended in 2005 with a peace deal. The BBC's Amber Henshaw in the capital, Khartoum, says the appointments come after years of deadlock. Arop Moyak, a southerner from Sudan's People Liberation Movement, will be chief administrator of Abyei, with Rahama Abdel Rahman al-Nour of the northern National Congress Party his deputy, our correspondent says. In June, the sides agreed to send a joint force to the area to... [read full story]