Attacks, clashes increase on Sudan-S.Sudan border

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Attacks, clashes increase on Sudan-S.Sudan border

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Fighting has intensified on the border of Sudan and Southern Sudan.

20 February,2012 08:12 pm

A rebel spokesman says Sudans military is carrying out a bombing campaign intended to shut down the main route for refugees fleeing violence in the countrys south.Arnu Loddi, a spokesman for the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement-North, a rebel group inside Sudan, said Monday that attacks by the Sudanese Armed Forces have been focused along the road leading out of Southern Kordofan, Sudan, into Yida, South Sudan.A Sudanese military spokesman did not immediately answer calls seeking comment about the reports.More than 20,000 refugees already have fled to a camp in Yida to escape the violence, and the United Nations worries that hundreds of thousands more could be on the way.--AP