Sudan: UN agrees to replace Ethiopian forces within UNISFA
Peacekeeper troops from Ethiopia deployed under the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) patrol outside Abyei town, in Abyei state, on December 14, 2016. UN agrees to replace Ethiopian soldiers in UNISFA with other UN troops upon Sudan's request, Khartoum announces. PHOTO | AFP
The United Nations has agreed to replace thousands of Ethiopian forces within the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) with other UN forces, Sudan announced Wednesday.
Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, received a phone call from Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the UN Undersecretary-General for Peace Operations, in which the two sides discussed arrangements for replacing the Ethiopian forces upon Sudan's request, the sovereign council said in a statement.
