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UN Mine Action Service personel inspect confiscated weapons destined to be destroyed in South Sudan. (Matthew Abbott, AFP)
Khartoum – The Sudanese government has denied supporting rebels in South Sudan after it accused Khartoum of supplying arms to the insurgents threatening its oil fields.
South Sudan military officials have alleged that Khartoum provides weapons and ammunition to a defected army leader in its Upper Nile state. Rebels are threatening South Sudan’s remaining functional oil fields.
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after the region was engulfed in years of bloody civil war with Sudanese government troops.
