![]() Sudanese officials also claimed Monday to have seized an area sympathetic to South Sudan.Īguer said the clashes are a "terrible escalation" of the border conflict that stretches back before South Sudan broke away from Sudan last year.įighting along the north-south border has been near constant over the past two weeks. "We know that Sudanese troops are advancing toward Heglig," he said. "We are waiting for them in the killing zone and they are not coming."īut he said the north's army is now 23 kilometers (some 14 miles) from Heglig, which is claimed by Sudan but was seized last week by South Sudanese forces in fierce fighting that southern officials say killed at least 240 Sudanese soldiers and 19 South Sudanese troops. "Today they bombed our positions in Heglig and the oil installations in Heglig," he said Monday. He said the rival armies had not yet engaged in physical fighting this week. He also said Monday that Sudan's air force killed five civilians in aerial attacks Sunday over Heglig.Īguer also said that the town of Bentiu in South Sudan's Unity State was hit and that the conflict has spread to several southern states bordering Sudan, including Western Bahr el Ghazal. Two Sudanese warplanes dropped "many bombs" Monday on the oil-rich city of Heglig, as long-range artillery targeted southern army positions in the disputed town, said southern army spokesman Col. Ambassador Susan Rice, the current president of the Security Council, said a bombardment in South Sudan also hit a U.N.
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