Eight people were also injured in clashes with “terrorists” in the disputed region between Sudan and South Sudan.
Posted on December 13, 2025
At least six Bangladeshi peacekeepers were killed in a “terrorist” attack on a United Nations base in Abyei, a disputed region between Sudan and South Sudan, the Bangladesh military said.
Eight other people were also wounded in Saturday's attack, the military said.
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“The situation in the area remains unstable and clashes with terrorists continue,” the army said in a statement, adding that authorities were working to provide medical treatment and rescue operations to the injured.
There was no immediate comment from the UN mission.
The attack comes just a month after the United Nations Security Council voted to renew for another year the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), the peacekeeping mission in the disputed oil-rich region between Sudan and South Sudan.
Bangladesh is one of the largest contributors to UN peacekeeping missions and its troops have long been deployed in Abyei, a volatile region disputed between Sudan and South Sudan.
The UNISFA peacekeeping mission was first deployed in 2011.
UNISFA's 4,000 police and soldiers are tasked with protecting civilians in a region plagued by frequent armed clashes.
The Abyei region is divided between two different groups with different loyalties.
The Ngok Dinka tribe has strong ethnic, cultural and linguistic links with the Dinka of South Sudan, while the Misseriya are a nomadic Arab tribe with links to Sudan.
Abyei's future was a key feature of the 2005 peace deal signed between the Sudanese government and rebels that ended the civil war and paved the way for South Sudan's independence.
However, unrest in the disputed area with South Sudan also continues at a time when Sudan is devastated by a more recent civil war that broke out in April 2023, when two generals began fighting for control of the country.
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been committing atrocities in Darfur and other regions, has also been active in Abyei.
