Darfur rebel group calls Beshir move 'declaration of war'

A Darfur rebel faction said Sunday that a call by Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir to reopen auxiliary training camps was “a declaration of war” and that it was putting its troops on high alert.

The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, former southern rebels who once battled the auxiliary, walked out of the Khartoum government last month in protest at the non-application of a 2005 north-south peace deal.

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KHARTOUM (AFP) – A Darfur rebel faction said Sunday that a call by Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir to reopen auxiliary training camps was “a declaration of war” and that it was putting its troops on high alert.

“The Sudan Liberation Movement-Unity decrees a state of maximum alert for its troops following the Sudanese president’s declarations about opening popular defence force training camps,” the SLM-Unity said in a statement.

“We take this decision as a declaration of all-out war in Sudan,” it said the day after Beshir ordered the reopening of auxiliary training camps to prepare for war amid an ongoing crisis with southern former rebels.

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