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Rebels call for government flight ban

    NAIROBI

    The SPLA/M issued a statement on Tuesday accusing the government of forcing aid agencies to leave southern Sudan under a sustained bombing campaign. “The whole of Bahr el-Ghazal region, Western Upper Nile and Western Equatoria have specifically been singled out for extreme savagery,” the statement said. It added that the continued bombing of the civilian population and humanitarian aid organisations was aimed at “shutting down all humanitarian flights.. [and] is tantamount to the use of hunger and starvation of innocent civil population as an instrument of war”. It urged the UN Security Council to impose a ban on government aircraft over southern Sudan.

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