‘JEM are not moving into South Sudan’
The government of South Sudan has denied reports that the Justice and Equality Movement’s (JEM) forces were moving into its territory. Yen Mathew, spokesman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, the ruling party in South Sudan said that Khartoum’s accusations were ‘false and baseless’. On Wednesday the Sudan government complained to the United Nations Security Council that 79 military vehicles belonging to JEM, carrying 350 fighters were traveling over the border to South Sudan. Mathew said to Radio Dabanga, ‘this was an attempt by Khartoum to justify attacking unarmed civilians in Western Bahr al Ghazal’, a state on the South Sudan side of the border. Gibril Adam Bilal spokesman for JEM denied that they were moving any troops to South Sudan, or that any troops had moved beyond the 1965 border.He also said that all JEM troops were now deployed in Kordofan and Darfur.
The government of South Sudan has denied reports that the Justice and Equality Movement’s (JEM) forces were moving into its territory.
Yen Mathew, spokesman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, the ruling party in South Sudan said that Khartoum’s accusations were ‘false and baseless’.
On Wednesday the Sudan government complained to the United Nations Security Council that 79 military vehicles belonging to JEM, carrying 350 fighters were traveling over the border to South Sudan.
Mathew said to Radio Dabanga, ‘this was an attempt by Khartoum to justify attacking unarmed civilians in Western Bahr al Ghazal’, a state on the South Sudan side of the border.
Gibril Adam Bilal spokesman for JEM denied that they were moving any troops to South Sudan, or that any troops had moved beyond the 1965 border.
He also said that all JEM troops were now deployed in Kordofan and Darfur.
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