Sudan accuses South of attack near Abyei

KHARTOUM South Sudanese forces have made a diversionary attack near the contested Abyei region, state-linked media in Khartoum said, as international pressure mounted on Wednesday to pull the rivals back from the brink of all-out war and Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir vowed to liberate the South Sudanese people from their government.

“Our main target from today is to liberate South Sudan’s citizens from the SPLM (Sudan People’s Liberation Movement), and this is our responsibility before our brothers in South Sudan,” Bashir said.

The attack against Sudanese troops occurred on Tuesday in the Bahr El Arab River area, 62 kilometres south of El Meiram, said the Sudanese Media Centre (SMC) which is close to the security apparatus.

That area is just outside Abyei — a potential flashpoint — and is also along the South Darfur border with South Sudan’s Northern Bahr El Gazal state.

In another development, rebels from Sudan’s Darfur region have been photographed alongside South Sudanese troops fighting in the seized Heglig oil region, Khartoum’s foreign ministry said.

A ministry official cited international press photos showing insurgents from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) fighting “beside the army of South Sudan”, which seized Sudan’s main Heglig oil region

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