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Khartoum preparing counter-offensive

    NAIROBI

    Brigadier Galwak Deng, chairman of the Southern Sudan State Coordinating Council (SSSCC) announced on Monday, 11 June, that a battalion of the South Sudan Defence Forces (SSDF), a pro-government militia, would to go to Western Bahr al-Ghazal to take part in the recapture of Raga and Deim Zubeir towns.

    Muhammad Dirdiery, Sudanese embassy spokesman in Nairobi, told IRIN on Wednesday that the Sudanese government was now preparing for a full-scale offensive against the SPLA both in Western Bahr al-Ghazal and other locations. “We are going to mobilise all the forces available to us,” he said.

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