The Sudanese ambassador to South Sudan, accompanied by his staff, visited retired Anyanya war veteran and politician Joseph Lagu at his residence in Juba.
The Abyei is an area of 10,546 km² or 4,072 sq mi on the border between South Sudan and Sudan that has been accorded "special administrative status" by the 2004 Protocol on the Resolution of the Abyei Conflict in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the Second Sudanese Civil War.