Special Representative of the Secretary General for the United Nations Mission in Sudan Ashraf Qazi (L) and Sudan's Foreign Minister Deng Alor arrive at the U.N. compound to watch the decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague on a television in Abyei, central Sudan, July 22, 2009. An international court on Wednesday redrew the boundaries of Sudan's disputed oil-producing Abyei region, ceding key oilfields to north Sudan in a decision hailed as a resolution to a long-standing territorial conflict. Reuters Pictures 4 months ago

Special Representative of the Secretary General for the United Nations Mission in Sudan Ashraf Qazi (L) and Sudan's Foreign Minister Deng Alor arrive at the U.N. compound to watch the decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague on a television in Abyei, central Sudan, July 22, 2009. An international court on Wednesday redrew the boundaries of Sudan's disputed oil-producing Abyei region, ceding key oilfields to north Sudan in a decision hailed as a resolution to a long-standing territorial conflict.

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