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Badru Mulumba’s report on Tuesday, Jan 8, is good news for “kufar” infidels of Sudan’s war-ravaged south: it appears the Islamic jihad is off for the time being.
A southern general of that oil-rich region told
Mulumba the northern troops completed an agreed-upon withdrawal.
He writes for Agance France Press:
"They have gone," Major General Mai Hoth, deputy chief…Sudan
People's Liberation Army, told AFP. "The equipment and the
headquarters will be handed over to us tomorrow."
He said only a handful of northern troops remained, unable to find
transport home.
A joint defense council had given the northern troops until
Wednesday to leave after they failed to meet a December 31 deadline
that was part of a deal that saw southern ex-rebels return to
government after resigning in October.
Their withdrawal from the unity cabinet was the worst crisis to hit
the 2005 peace deal that ended Africa's longest-running civil war.
An estimated two million people were killed and another six million
displaced in the two-decade-long conflict…
The south estimated that the north still had up to 18,000 troops in
the oil areas.
Hoth said that by Monday evening, those who had failed to get
transport were only "probably a few dozen."
The northern troops will also on Wednesday hand over their
headquarters in Bentiu, in Unity State, where 80 percent of Sudan's
500,000 barrels per day of oil is drilled, to the Joint Integrated
Units, Hoth said…
The northern withdrawal comes against the background of renewed
fighting between southern Sudanese forces and Khartoum-backed Arab
tribesmen.