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1. Kwesi Sansculotte-Greenidge is a Senior Researcher in the Knowledge Production Department at ACCORD. He obtained a PhD in Anthropology from Durham University, UK and an MA in African Studies from Yale University, USA. Thanks go to colleagues in the Knowledge Production Department, Dr. Grace Maina, Salome Van Jaarsveld, Christy McConnell and Dr Martha Mutisi for their insightful review of this article.
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9. de Waal, Alex. 5 Aug. 2004a. ‘Counter-Insurgency on the Cheap’. London Review of Books Volume 26. Issue 15
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11. Machakos Protocol, IGAD “Secretariat on Peace in the Sudan”, 20 July 2002, Available at; http://www.smallarmssurveysudan.org/pdfs/HSBA-Docs-CPA-2.pdf
12. United Nations Mission In Sudan, Abyei Protocol Fact Sheet, February 2009. Available at ;http://unmis.unmissions.org/Portals/UNMIS/Fact%20Sheets/FS-abyeiprotocol.pdf
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13. Sudan Tribune, Abyei Boundary Commission Report, 2005, Available at; http://www.sudantribune.com/TEXT-Abyei-Boundary-Commission,11633
14. Human Rights Watch, Abandoning Abyei: Destruction and Displacement, May 2008, 22 July 2008, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4886e69a2.html [accessed 27 April 2011]
15. United Nations Mission in Sudan, Abyei Roadmap Agreement Fact Sheet, June 2009, Available at; http://unmis.unmissions.org/Portals/UNMIS/Fact%20Sheets/FS-Abyei%20roadmap.pdf
16. Lathrop, C and Bederman, D. 2010. Government of Sudan v. Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (“Abyei Arbitration)” The American Journal of International Law Vol. 104, No. 1 (January 2010), pp. 66-73
17. McDoom,O. August 2010. Deadlock in dispute over Sudan’s Abyei oil region. Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/01/idUSMCD150582._CH_.2400
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18. Johnson, D. The Road Back From Abyei. 14 January 2011. Available at; http://www.riftvalley.net/resources/file/The%20Road%20Back%20from%20
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19. Amanda Hsaio, Sudan Official: Misseriya Settling In Abyei, Fueling Referendum Tension, 4 August 2010, Available at; http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/sudan-official-misseriya-settling-abyei-fueling-referendum-tensions
20. Interview UNMIS official.
21. ICG, 2007, Sudan: Breaking the Abyei Deadlock, N°47, 12 Oct 2007. Avail-able at; http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/files/africa/horn-of-africa/sudan/b047%20sudan%20breaking%20the%20abyei%20deadlock.ashx;
22. The Christian Science Monitor, Oil-rich’ Abyei: Time to update the shorthand for Sudan’s flashpoint border town? Available at: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-Monitor/2010/1102/Oil-rich-Abyei-Time-to-update-the-shorthand-for-Sudan-s-flashpoint-border-town;
23. BP Statistical Review of World Energy, June 2010, Available at; http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/reports_and_publications/statistical_energy_review_2008/STAGING/local_assets/2010_downloads/statistical_review_of_world_energy_full_report_2010.pdf
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