 Sudan's Army has committed the first serious violation of a final cease-fire signed a year ago to end Africa's longest civil war in its south, a UN peacekeeping official said yesterday. The former southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement said the army sent around 1,200 troops last week into the rebel-controlled eastern area of Hamesh Koreb and has threatened to expel the SPLM. A joint UN-led team is still in the area to defuse tensions between the two sides. "This is the first serious cease-fire violation," said Parminder Pannu, the military chief of staff of the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan, adding the Sudanese army was responsible. The United Nations later clarified another, higher-level investigation within the UN mission was ongoing into the Hamesh Koreb attack. |