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SUDAN: GOVERNMENT ACCUSES CHAD OF ATTACK ON WEST DARFUR January 29, 2006
Apunyu Bonny
(SomaliNet) Sudan has accused Chad of bombarding an area in its western border state of West Darfur and said its army had retaliated. This was reveled on saturday 28th.
Sudan and Chad share a tense border and each country accuses the other of supporting rebel movements against them.
"The area of Armankul northwest of the town of Geneina, capital of West Darfur state, came under artillery shelling that continued for an hour and a half from inside the Chadian territories," military spokesman Gen. Abbas Adul Rahaman Khalifa told SUNA News Agency. However, Gen. Abbas did not specify whether Chadian soldiers or a rebel group carried out the attack.
"Our armed forces have dealt with this aggression with a retaliation in preservation of the sovereignty of the national territories and safeguarding the lives of Sudanese subjects," Khalifa said.
Sudan has accused Chad of supporting the rebels in a nearly 3-year-old rebellion in Darfur. Chad's government has also complained of periodic attacks by Sudanese militias, which they believe are linked to the Sudanese government and based in Darfur. Khalifa said that despite Sudan's good intentions toward Chad, N'djamena was continuing "a series of aggressions on our western borders.