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| AU-U.N. Troops Probe Rebel 'Attack' near CAR Border |
| 2012-04-20 |
| [An Nahar] Peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region are investigating a reported rebel attack near the Central African Republic border, a spokeswoman said Thursday, after Orcs and similar vermin said they killed Sudanese troops. "We've dispatched a patrol" to the remote Umm Dafog area of South Darfur state bordering the CAR, said Susan Manuel of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... -United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Mission in Darfur. "We had reports of Umm Dafog being attacked," she added, but it was unclear which rebel group was involved. The Sudan Liberation Army (SLA)-Minni Minnawi faction claimed to have carried out the attack on a Sudanese Armed Forces compound on Tuesday. "In this fighting we used heavy weapons and bombed the area from far away," the group's front man Abdullah Moursal told Agence La Belle France Presse. "This area is now under the control of the SLA." Moursal said Sudanese troops suffered "heavy losses" and some were taken prisoner but he gave no figures. Sudan's army front man could not be reached. Manuel said peacekeepers also had reports of a separate attack by unknown rebels who destroyed a telecommunications tower west of Edd Al Fursan, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) northeast of Umm Dafog. SLA and other key Darfuri rebels last year joined the Sudanese Revolutionary Front with Orcs and similar vermin from the states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile on the border with South Sudan. The rebels pledged to topple the Khartoum regime, which they regard as unrepresentative of the country's political, ethnic and religious diversity. But they have denied fighting alongside South Sudanese troops who on April 10 occupied Sudan's main oilfield of Heglig, hundreds of kilometers (miles) east of Umm Dafog in South Kordofan. |
| Posted by:Fred |