JUBA, SUDAN – More than 80 rebels and civilians were killed when insurgents attacked a camp in south Sudan, the army said yesterday, in the latest violence to mar preparations for the region’s independence.
In a separate incident, unknown attackers shot and wounded four Zambian UN peacekeepers in the contested Abyei region yesterday, another north-south flashpoint, the United Nations said.
People from Sudan's oil-producing south overwhelmingly voted to secede in a referendum in January, promised in a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war with the north.
Celebrations over the independence vote have been marred by a wave of tribal violence and clashes between the south's army and renegade militias.
– (Reuters)