Abyei and Blue Nile along with South Kordofan lie along the loosely demarcated border between Sudan and South Sudan.
Rabie Abdul-Atti, an official with the government in Khartoum, accused South Sudan of sending troops into the area. He said the Juba government was providing logistical support for rebels who support the newly independent South Sudan. South Sudan has denied these claims. Mukesh Kapila, who used to be the UN's most senior humanitarian official in Sudan, said he saw Sudanese planes bombing civilian areas in South Kordofan. "We heard and saw the planes on top of us," he told the BBC after visiting the southern region of Sudan for the Aegis Trust, which campaigns against genocide.
"And then we saw women and children, who I had only just been talking to a few seconds before, run away to the caves and cracks in the hills where they traditionally took shelter when the bombers came in, which apparently happens every day." Kapila said similar tactics had been used in Sudan's Darfur region in the past. "We saw water wells being targeted. We saw churches destroyed where people might take shelter from the fighting. And we saw, for the first time reported, the use of anti-personnel landmines and cluster bombs," he said.
The BBC's James Copnall in the capital Khartoum says the war in South Kordofan is getting increased attention, in part because of fears of lack of food in the rebel-held areas.
Khartoum is not allowing international humanitarian agencies into the area, and has been accused of using food as a weapon of war. Khalid Al Mubarak, a spokesman for the Sudanese Embassy in London, told BBC that it does allow in Sudanese aid agencies, but not agencies the government says are trying to work against stability in the area.(BBC)
Source: http://new.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=1&aid=318&dir=2012/March/Monday12
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