The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) denied on Tuesday that its troops had launched an attack against a base of a former rebel faction which signed a peace deal with the government last year.
The General Command of the SAF affirmed in a statement that the army "has nothing to do with what was going on at Mehajeria area", where a base of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLA) was allegedly attacked on Monday.
"What was going on at Mehajeria area was a tribal fighting between the citizens of the area and the Armed Forces have nothing to do with it," said Osman Mohammed al-Aghbash, the spokesman of the SAF General Command.
Al-Aghbash added that the Air Force of the SAF had never come near the area, reiterating a keenness of the SAF to implement the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) signed between the Sudanese government and the SLA in Abuja in May, 2006.
He also stressed the SAF's commitment to all the security arrangements between the government and the SLA led by Mini Arkou Minawi, who was appointed as the presidential senior assistant following the signing of the DPA.
The SLA has claimed that the government troops and allied militia on Monday attacked Mehajeria area.
"Government planes attacked Mehajeria, which belongs to us, and government forces and Janjaweed militia were fighting our forces," said Khalid Abakar, a senior representative of the SLA in Khartoum.
The SLA was the only Darfur rebel faction which has signed the DPA with the Sudanese government.
Khartoum and most rebel groups have agreed to resume peace negotiations in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Oct. 27 in order to end the Darfur conflict which erupted in February 2003.
Source: Xinhua
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