JUBA, Sudan (AFP) – The United Nations demanded that Khartoum withdraw its troops from Sudan's Abyei district after what the south branded an “invasion” by northern troops of the flashpoint border region. A visiting delegation of the UN Security Council said on Sunday they were “very, very concerned about the rapidly deteriorating situation in Abyei” and formally called on Khartoum to withdraw its troops. “The members of the Security Council call upon the government of Sudan to halt its military operation and to withdraw immediately from Abyei town and its environs,” the French ambassador to the United Nations, Gerard Araud, told a joint news…
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