Sudans intelligence chief warned South Sudan against hostile moves from its territory, saying any incursion by rebel forces based in its neighbour would be treated as an assault by Juba. In comments broadcast by a Sudanese news channel, Mohamed Atta named two camps in neighbouring South Sudans Northern Bahr el Ghazal state and urged Juba to disarm the rebels there. Each side has accused the other of harbouring rebels seeking to destabilize the other, but tensions have spiked again since the collapse of African Union-brokered talks in the Ethiopian capital on Dec. 9. Atta said the rebels were from the Justice and Equality Movement, an armed group that emerged during the war in Sudans western Darfur region. While fighting peaked there in 2003 and 2004, law and order has not returned and clashes between insurgents and government forces have continued despite a large United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:20:54 +0000
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