A deal has been reached between north and south Sudan over the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei, BBC online reports Friday.
The two sides have agreed on an interim administration with a southerner named as chief administrator and a member of a local Arab clan as his deputy. The appointments come after years of deadlock.
Fighting in May between northern and southern troops drove 50.000 people from their homes in the region. Many feared the violence would re-ignite the bloody civil war that ended in 2005 with a peace deal.
In June, the sides agreed to send a joint force to the area to restore security and they agreed to get international help to resolve the underlying boundary issue.
The government in Khartoum and officials in the semi-autonomous south have both claimed the oil-rich area as their own.
Meanwhile, the UN is scrambling emergency aid to more than 40.000 people displaced by floods in southern Sudan, a top regional official said Thursday, according to the World Bank press review.
Seasonal heavy rains in Northern Bahr el-Ghazal state caused the Kuom river to overflow in the town of Aweil, making 39.000 people homeless in the region.
