Revolutionary Front claims more victories, Sudan complains to UNSC

The Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) said on Monday it seized the strategic areas of Toroge and Al Ahamir, on the route between Kadugli and Khartoum, in South Kordofan defeating government troops and forcing them to flee. SRF official spokesman Abu Al Gasim told Radio Dabanga the Front’s forces led by Abdel Aziz al-Hilu attacked an Sudan Armed Forces garrison in Toroge and took over the area. Gasim claimed the Front killed 130 government soldiers and seized many weapons including missiles. The spokesman said the hour has come to take the fight to Khartoum.Sudan complains to UNSC, asks for ‘right to respond’The Sudanese army said fighting was continuing, and repeated accusations against South Sudan for ‘backing the war that is now raging in South Kordofan’. In an interview with Radio Dabanga, an official of the ruling National Congress Party, Qutbi Mahdi accused South Sudan of planning the revolt, and said a new complaint has been issued to the UN Security Council asking for the right to respond to protect the land and its citizens. South Sudan strongly denied any accusations of involvement. Philip Aguer, South Sudan’s military spokesman said to Radio Dabanga that Juba has no involvement in the current fighting, and described the accusations as baseless, aimed to cover up embarassing defeats by opposition movements in the Sudanese state.