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SPLM/A claims double victory

    NAIROBI

    The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) on Friday claimed to have repelled a major government offensive in the Nubah Mountains. In a statement, the rebel movement said that on 22 May, Khartoum had sent an 8,000-strong force to attack rebel positions, and to take control of SPLA-controlled airfields there. SPLM/A spokesman Samson Kwaje was quoted by AFP as saying that the SPLA had “finally defeated this [government] force on 2 June, the day the regional Inter-Government Authority on Development (IGAD) peace summit on Sudan opened in Nairobi”. Kwaje said 14 villages had been burned down and over 30,000 people displaced by government forces, AFP added.
    Khartoum had been “waging a scorched-earth policy in the Nubah Mountains” since 1986, it quoted Kwaje as saying.

    Kwaje also claimed that a government attack on SPLA positions in Southern Blue Nile had been defeated on 28 May. “The threat did not materialise, as we completely defeated them in Southern Blue Nile,” Kwaje said.

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