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24 killed in Nuba fighting

    NAIROBI
    A week of fighting in the Nuba mountains has claimed the lives of 20 soldiers and four civilians, the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and allied northern opposition said in a statement released in Cairo yesterday. Fourteen government soldier and six SPLA fighters died in the week-long clashes that ended on Wednesday, AFP reported. The four civilians were executed for looting by government forces.

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