Abyei Administration Area Changes Name The Information Minister of the Abyei region says that the administration area has changed its name from Abyei Administrative Area to Abyei Special Administrative Area. 29 July 2015
By Daniel Angok M * ABYEI, 29 July 2015[Gurtong]-*Alor Dou Al Beit said that the change of name follows the formation of the new administration by President Salva Kiir earlier this year. “We don’t want to change just the name, but the region has its name like when we look at the States of South Sudan plus GPAA, each had their names based on their interest, he stressed. “We changed the name to Abyei Special Administration Area from Abyei Administration Area because we are not sharing the region again with Sudan.” However, during a visit to the West Kordofan State in March this year, the Sudanese President, Omer Hassan al-Bashir asserted that the contested Abyei area belongs to Sudan and will remain a Sudanese territory. Bashir was speaking in an election rally in Al Foula the capital of the West Kordofan State, during his campaigns. Posted in: Home <http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx> -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14orsr3uBnmcEyZfxrxK-uo9tod6HVXNK-%3Dfd%3DF%2BxkPVhrw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
