KHARTOUM – Satellite images have shown the North Sudanese military massing in the southern Kordofan border state, a monitor has said, while rebels in Darfur have accused Khartoum of attacking them with warplanes.
Southern Kordofan, on the ill-defined border with the south, is among several flashpoints as Sudan’s south prepares to secede on July 9th. The north’s army is also battling armed groups in the western region of Darfur.
The Satellite Sentinel Project, which monitors Sudan, said yesterday that imagery from Friday showed that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) controlled Kadugli, capital of southern Kordofan, and that thousands of civilians had been “displaced”. The images “show a massing of SAF artillery, light vehicles and heavy transports of the kinds used to carry tanks, troops, and munitions”. – (Reuters)