WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has dispatched a top national security aide to the Persian Gulf and Sudan as U.S. concerns mount over increasing violence in Yemen and the future of Sudan's north-south peace agreement.
The White House said Obama's Homeland Security and Counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, held meetings in Sudan's capital of Khartoum on Wednesday to discuss deteriorating security conditions around the disputed Sudanese border town of Abyei that threaten a fragile peace. Brennan will then travel this week to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for talks with officials there about Yemen.
Khartoum's troops have occupied Abyei, a flashpoint town …
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