During the days leading up to the Lunar New Year, the Vietnamese Peacekeeping Engineer Team in the Abyei region (Africa) has been struggling to prepare for Tet in difficult and deprived conditions.

Due to the religious characteristics of the Abyei region, people do not raise or consume pork, so the engineering team directed officers and soldiers to take advantage of the time when returning to Vietnam for leave to buy necessities such as pork, dong leaves, sticky rice, etc.

After these items were delivered to Highway (the base of the engineering team), the team commander organized a competition to wrap Chung cakes and decorate for Tet.

The engineering team used reusable materials to decorate the living room and common room of the squads. Vietnamese soldiers used African forest branches to decorate peach and apricot trees to celebrate Tet.

The engineering team also organized a volleyball match with the Abyei locals and invited some Nigerian soldiers to act as referees. After the match, the team presented gifts and invited the locals to enjoy traditional Vietnamese dishes.

In the coming days, the engineering team will continue to install a stage, decorate the flag-raising yard of the command post for Tet, organize cultural performances, and folk games such as tug of war, blindfolded goat-catching, water balloon hitting, stick pushing, etc.

Major Nguyen Mau Vu, political commissar of the engineering team, said that in addition to preparing for Tet, the team still practiced security and safety plans for the base in the context of complicated and unpredictable changes in the Abyei area.