{{The United Nations announced that an Ethiopian peacekeeper was killed during a mortar attack the sudan rebels attacked a town in south kodofan.}}<\/p>\n
Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) said they captured a locality, west of the capital of South Kordofan Kadugli.<\/p>\n
SPLM-N spokesperson, Arnu Ngutulu Lodi, said that on Friday morning their fighters seized Hajar Nimir garrison located one and half km from Mujama west Kadugli.<\/p>\n
Lodi further said they shot down a Mig jet-fighter, adding it crashed in the government controlled areas.<\/p>\n
He pointed out that their forces are advancing towards the state capital.<\/p>\n
However, the Sudanese army did not yet issue any statement about the fighting. Also the spokesperson office was not reachable due to the weekend holiday.<\/p>\n
The rebel spokesperson said they shelled a military base at Kadugli airport calling on the civilians to move away from “military targets”.<\/p>\n
In New York, UN chief Ban Ki-Moon condemned in “the strongest terms” the shelling of a logistics base, located near Kadugli airport, of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA).<\/p>\n
A statement released by the office of the spokesperson for the UN secretary general also said that one Ethiopian peacekeeper was killed and two more were injured as a result of the shelling.<\/p>\n
UN chief “expresses his condolences to the family of the fallen peacekeeper and to the Government of Ethiopia”.<\/p>\n
Ban further urged the Sudanese government and SPLM-N rebels “to immediately suspend hostilities and resume ceasefire negotiations to end the conflict in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile States”.<\/p>\n
Nafei Ali Nafie, presidential assistant told Khartoum\u2019s legislators they had intelligence that the rebels plan to capture Kaduglei and El-Fasher of North Darfur and Al-Obeid of North Kordofan. But he asserted they are ready to confront them.<\/p>\n
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