(VOVWORLD) - 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 the replacement of Ethiopian forces upon Sudan's request, the sovereign council said in a statement.
Lacroix said the replacement operations would begin in February and last until March 2022.
Al-Burhan promised to remove all barriers and challenges facing the mission.