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AFP Published April 27, 2012
SPLA-N soldiers train in the Nuba Mountians, South Kordofan, Sudan. Thousands of people from the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan have been living in caves in order to escape airstrikes by Khartoum’s Sudan Armed Forces (SAF). – Photo by AFP.
SPLA-N soldiers train in the Nuba Mountians, South Kordofan, Sudan. Thousands of people from the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan have been living in caves in order to escape airstrikes by Khartoum’s Sudan Armed Forces (SAF). – Photo by AFP.
Children play in the mountains outside of Tess, South Kordofan, Sudan. Thousands of people from the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan have been living in caves in order to escape airstrikes by Khartoum’s Sudan Armed Forces (SAF). – Photo by AFP.
Children play in the mountains outside of Tess, South Kordofan, Sudan. Thousands of people from the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan have been living in caves in order to escape airstrikes by Khartoum’s Sudan Armed Forces (SAF). – Photo by AFP.
A woman and her child from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan wait outside of the Yida refugee camp registration center in Yida, South Sudan. After an initial attack by SPLA-N rebel forces in South Kordofan, thousands of people from the Nuba Mountains have fled to neighboringYida. – Photo by AFP.
A woman and her child from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan wait outside of the Yida refugee camp registration center in Yida, South Sudan. After an initial attack by SPLA-N rebel forces in South Kordofan, thousands of people from the Nuba Mountains have fled to neighboringYida. – Photo by AFP.
Nyachar Teny points in the direction he says Sudanese bomber planes came during an air strike, just outside Bentiu, in South Sudan. Clashes erupted on April 10, 2012, when Southern troops seized the contested Heglig oil fields from Sudanese soldiers, an area that both nations claim lies on their side of the undemarcated border. – Photo by AFP.
Nyachar Teny points in the direction he says Sudanese bomber planes came during an air strike, just outside Bentiu, in South Sudan. Clashes erupted on April 10, 2012, when Southern troops seized the contested Heglig oil fields from Sudanese soldiers, an area that both nations claim lies on their side of the undemarcated border. – Photo by AFP.
A man looks through the remains of a house destroyed by a Sudan Armed Forces airstrike, in Tabanya, in South Kordofan, a region of Sudan. After an initial attack by SPLA-N rebel forces in South Kordofan, thousands of people from the Nuba Mountains have fled to neighboring Yida to escape the fighting and retaliatory airstrikes by Khartoum’s Sudan Armed Forces. – Photo by AFP.
A man looks through the remains of a house destroyed by a Sudan Armed Forces airstrike, in Tabanya, in South Kordofan, a region of Sudan. After an initial attack by SPLA-N rebel forces in South Kordofan, thousands of people from the Nuba Mountains have fled to neighboring Yida to escape the fighting and retaliatory airstrikes by Khartoum’s Sudan Armed Forces. – Photo by AFP.
A Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLA-N) rebel soldier looks out toward Talodi, in South Kordofan, a region of Sudan. – Photo by AFP.
A Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLA-N) rebel soldier looks out toward Talodi, in South Kordofan, a region of Sudan. – Photo by AFP.
A Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLA-N) rebel soldier sits amongst ammunition that was taken from the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) during fighting in the Nuba Mountians, in South Kordofan, a region of Sudan. – Photo by AFP.
A Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLA-N) rebel soldier sits amongst ammunition that was taken from the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) during fighting in the Nuba Mountians, in South Kordofan, a region of Sudan. – Photo by AFP.

Sudanese war planes launched a fresh bombing raid on a key South Sudanese town on Monday, dashing hopes that a withdrawal of Southern troops from a contested area would end weeks of fighting.

Several bombs were dropped on Bentiu, capital of the oil-rich South Sudan border state of Unity, killing at least one child, officials said.

“This is a serious escalation and a violation of the territory of South Sudan… I think it is a clear provocation,” Mac Paul, the South’s deputy director of military intelligence said.

The attack, the latest of several on the town and in South Sudan’s border state, come a day after the South’s army said it had completed a pullout of the contested Heglig oil field, seized from Sudan’s army on April 10.  – Photos and text by AFP.

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