Southern Sudan stronghold seized as border clashes escalate
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Your support makes all the difference.Officials in Khartoum are claiming to have seized an area sympathetic to South Sudan as clashes spread along the border yesterday.
A South Sudan military official said the clashes were a "terrible escalation" of the conflict that stretched back to before it split from Sudan last year.
Fighting along the north-south border has been near constant over the past two weeks. The Sudan Media Centre reported yesterday that Sudan's army took control of Mugum, a stronghold of the southern forces.
AP
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