The Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) announced that it has defeated a force fo the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in fighting in Blue Nile, adding that fighting is still continuing also in Daldako area in South Kordofan state.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj yesterday, the SPLA-N spokesman stated that they destroyed two vehicles of the SAF in Blue Nile and killed 16 government forces. He also noted fighting is ongoing in Daldako area in Nuba Mountains after the SAF launched an attack on 18 May.
Meanwhile, the SAF announced that it had recaptured Daldako area, east of the town of Kadugli, saying that this comes as part of the second phase of its summer military operation.
In a statement on Sunday, the SAF spokesman Al-Sawarmi Khalid Saad affirmed that the military operation would continue until the rebellion is flushed out from the Two Areas.
Controversy over a polio vaccination
Meanwhile, Suleiman Abdurrahman, Sudan’s Humanitarian Aid Commissioner, accused the SPLA-N of rejecting a polio vaccination campaign in the Two Areas in accordance with the earlier tripartite agreement with the UN.
The agreement was signed between the government, SPLA-N and United Nations to allow humanitarian access in the war affected areas. The official was speaking in a meeting held at Al Salam Hall in Damazin town on Monday.
“Initially ,the rebels did want the government to sign that agreement — so that they could hold a negative campaign against the government and then pass their hidden agenda to allow international organizations to smuggle weapons and ammunition to the two areas through the United Nations,” he was quoted as saying.