S’Sudan army, rebels accuse each other of breaking ceasefire South Sudan army and rebel forces accused each other on Sunday of breaking a ceasefire hours after it came into effect. President Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek Machar met face to face on Friday to sign the deal – the second time the two sides promised to stop fighting after an accord in January swiftly collapsed. But Sudanese army spokesman, Philip Aguer, said his forces had been attacked in two positions in oil producing Unity State, one of them near the flashpoint town of Bentiu, where an ethnic massacre in April deepened international worries of a slide into genocide. “The rebels attacked only six hours after the ceasefire came into effect,” Aguer told Reuters, although he said the government’s SPLA army was able to repulse both assaults. The latest ceasefire was signed on Friday and all fighting was supposed to stop 24 hours later. In rival accusations, however, rebel military spokesman, Lul Ruai Koang, said the army had also launched attacks in Unity State and Upper Nile State, another oil producing region.
Posted on: Sun, 11 May 2014 14:48:18 +0000
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