A caucus of Sudanese MPs from South Kordofan state have once again accused South Sudan of supporting rebel groups, the SPLM-North and the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) prolonging insecurity in the border area.

The Juba government, they claim, has failed to comply with the terms of cooperation agreements signed between Juba and Khartoum last year and implemented in March.

Afaf Taur, the head of South Kordofan parliamentary caucus praised the Sudanese president’s order to halt South Sudan’s oil production in a press statement on Monday from Khartoum. She added that it came after in a ‘timely manner’ after examining all circumstances surrounding South Sudan’s continued support of Sudanese armed rebels.

Their alleged ‘continued support’ of the rebels by South Sudan, she claimed, was designed to destabilize the shared border to enable the SRF to continue fighting the government.

South Sudan’s President, Salva Kiir, announced earlier this year that it was not supporting rebels fighting a proxy war against the Sudanese government.

Meanwhile, Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP), have accused opposition parties under the umbrella National Consensus Forces (NCF) of coordinating with the rebel forces fighting in Darfur and South Kordofan in order to overthrow the government.

NCP spokesman Yasser Yusuf claimed in a press statement earlier this week that the opposition’s goal is to overthrow the government militarily.

Claiming that the plan was scheduled to begin during the Abu Karshola events, he announced:

“Never mind one hundred days, the opposition will not overthrow the government even after one hundred years.”

In response, the head of the NCF coalition, Farouk Abu-Issa, told Radio Tamazuj that the ‘one hundred days’ plan is an old program which intends to organize the work of peaceful democratic politicians and mobilize citizens across Sudan in order to defeat the current regime peacefully.

“In fact we are working on mobilizing, organizing and sensitising the general public in order to reach a stage of general public uprising in Sudan. So there is nothing new that is outside of our ultimate goal or our first goal for sure, because we actually intend to bring down the ruling system. So we are one even though we are different parties with different principles,” Abu-Issa clarified.