Sudan Rebels Claim Capture of 1,000 Soldiers
Sudanese rebels said Friday that they captured 1,000 government soldiers after overrunning the major town of Yei and Morobo garrison in the south.
Meanwhile, a Sudanese minister said rebel weapons seemed unlikely to have come from Uganda. The government has accused Uganda of sending troops to fight alongside the rebels.
Yassir Arman, spokesman for the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, said at rebel headquarters in the Eritrean capital of Asmara that the soldiers were lured into rebel-held territory.
In Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, Culture and Information Minister Al Tayeb Ibrahim Mohamed Khair was quoted Friday as denying that Yei had fallen to the rebels.
He said the weapons that rebels used in the fighting were too sophisticated to be Uganda’s, Sudanese newspapers reported.
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