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Prelude to “full military offensive” - SPLA

    NAIROBI

    “In what appears to be a prelude to a planned full military offensive, the regime has been carrying out massive bombardments of soft non-military targets,” the SPLA said in a statement released in Nairobi. Local leaders continued to believe that the increased intensity of bombing raids, combined with a massive military build-up in the south, was closely connected to the oil pipeline that flowed through the Nuba area, media and humanitarian sources told IRIN. The government objective appeared to be to create a “cordon sanitaire” around the oilfields and pipeline in order to assure secure extraction, they added.

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