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Sudan to react with 'all means' to latest South Sudan attack
2012-04-11
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Sudan vowed late Tuesday to react with "all means" against a three-pronged attack it said South Sudanese forces launched against South Kordofan state.

"The government of Sudan announces after this attack that it will react by all means," a statement on the official SUNA news agency said, warning of "destruction" in the South.

The statement came after Sudan carried out new Arclight airstrikes inside South Sudan and rival armies exchanged artillery fire in their latest round of fighting in contested border regions.

An AFP correspondent in the South Sudanese frontline village of Tashwin heard heavy artillery shelling and multiple Arclight airstrikes lasting for around an hour, with one bomb dropped by aircraft landing less than a kilometre (mile) away.

The statement on SUNA claimed that South Sudanese forces backed by rebel groups launched their main attack in Sudan's key oil-producing region of Heglig.

It did not specify which rebels but the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) has been battling government troops in South Kordofan since June.

Sudan has also previously alleged that Darfuri rebels were operating in the Heglig area.

South Sudan has denied backing opposition groups in the north.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Bashir has a problem with Black Christians.
Posted by: newc   2012-04-11 01:36  

#1  Map of where the oilfields are
Posted by: phil_b   2012-04-11 00:07  

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