Sudan: Clashes in Darfur kill 30 Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) rebels and undisclosed number of soldiers
About 30 rebels and an undisclosed number of government troops were killed during fighting in western Sudan near the border with Chad, a senior government official was quoted as saying Saturday.
Sudanese officials said government troops on Friday repulsed an attack by forces from the rebel Sudan Liberation Army, a little known group operating in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
The governor of North Darfur state, Osman Mohamed Yusuf Kibir, also rejected rebel claims that the group had overrun the town of Tinah, some 900 kilometers (about 560 miles) west of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum.
Kibir said Sudanese soldiers killed 30 rebels and arrested 12 others, according to a report carried by Sudan’s official news agency.