{"id":239217,"date":"2026-07-21T19:25:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-elections-wont-erase-our-right-to-self-determination-abyei-civil-society-leader-speaks-out\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:25:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:25:38","slug":"sudan-elections-wont-erase-our-right-to-self-determination-abyei-civil-society-leader-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-elections-wont-erase-our-right-to-self-determination-abyei-civil-society-leader-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;Elections Won&#8217;t Erase Our Right to Self-Determination&#8217; &#8211; Abyei Civil Society Leader Speaks Out."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Rose Monjtoog Dau, Head of Abyei Civil Society Organizations, welcomed the Misseriya Ajaira&#8217;s endorsement of the Port Sudan statement. The statement supports Abyei&#8217;s right to take part in Sudan&#8217;s December 2026 elections. But Dau made one thing clear: election participation does not settle the region&#8217;s separate, unresolved right to self-determination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><strong>Abyei&#8217;s Unique Status<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Dau described Abyei as a strategically important border area linking Sudan and South Sudan. She said the region&#8217;s situation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607210551.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rose Monjtoog Dau, Head of Abyei Civil Society Organizations, welcomed the Misseriya Ajaira&#8217;s endorsement of the Port Sudan statement. The statement supports Abyei&#8217;s right to take part in Sudan&#8217;s December 2026 elections. But Dau made one thing clear: election participation does not settle the region&#8217;s separate, unresolved right to self-determination. Abyei&#8217;s Unique Status Dau described [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[8397,258,256,8227,821,43539,7079,257,31781,7120,254,5938,4708,1613,7462],"class_list":["post-239217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-abyei","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-civil","tag-elections","tag-erase","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-selfdetermination","tag-society","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaks","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-wont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}