‘Ethiopian rebels fighting in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains’: newspaper

Ethiopian opposition forces are reportedly fighting alongside Sudanese army troops in South Kordofan. Multiple sources revealed that Ethiopian rebels participated in attacks against the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North forces in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan. The Ethiopians were trained and organised at the Sudanese military camps in the states of El Gedaref and El Gezira. The eyewitnesses who spoke to the Sudanese Altaghyeer (an independent electronic newspaper) said that about 4,000 Muslim Oromo fighters from Ethiopia were involved in military operations in the eastern part of the Nuba Mountains, since the government had launched its “decisive dry season summer offensive” in November last year. Medical staff in Kosti hospital reported that Ethiopian fighters have been treated in the city’s hospitals after they were wounded in South Kordofan clashes. File photo: An Oromo Liberation Front fighter (Somaliland Press) Related:‘Major military campaign to end rebellion in Darfur’: Al Bashir (26 December 2014) Sudan’s Ministers announce ‘decisive campaign’ against armed movements (12 November 2014)