President Salva Kiir has ordered for the immediate withdrawal of the SPLA from the the disputed oil town of Heglig.

A statement from the President read by the government spokesperson, Marial Benjamin to journalists on Friday said the withdrawal was in conformity with the request by the UN Security Council and world leaders.

“The Republic of South Sudan announces that SPLA troops have been ordered to withdraw from Panthou (Heglig). The withdrawal of troops will commence immediately,” Marial said.

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Fighting between Sudan and South Sudan has spread to a new town along the border, amid fears the countries will slide into full-scale war.

Forces from both sides engaged in intense clashes from Tuesday night into Wednesday near the town of Meiram.

The area is located inside Sudan’s Southern Kordofan state, near the border with the South Sudanese state of Northern Bahr al-Ghazal.

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At least nine people have been killed and several others wounded following fierce fighting between Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces with the support of Kenyan Defense Forces (KDF) and Ras-Kamboni militias against the al-Shabaab insurgent group late Saturday at Hayo village between Qooqani and Afmadow, according TFG officials.

Fighting is reported to have lasted several hours after TFG military forces attacked al-Shabaab bases in Hayo village of Lower Juba region, according to the Ras-Kamboni officials. TFG officials confirmed to Somalia Report that they attacked an al-Shabaab base in Hayo village

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Sudan parliament adopted a unanimously resolution che defines South Sudan government an “enemy”.

The decision at few days by attack of Juba’s forces to Heglig town, reach of oil, located at border and revenged by two countries.

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South Sudan’s Vice President, Riek Machar, said an attempt by the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) to retake the disputed town of Heglig (Panthou) was repulsed Friday night.

Machar, who is currently in Bentiu town of Unity state where the fighting takes place, said Saturday that the SAF forces tried to retake Heglig on Friday but were repulsed 30km away, north of Heglig town, and fleeing back northwards.

Sudanese army carried out massive mobilization and deployment and announced that the forces were advancing toward Heglig, vowing to recapture it.

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Sudanese warplanes launched their first attack on a major South Sudanese town on Thursday, with five bombs dropped on the capital of the oil-producing Unity border state, Southern officials said.

“They dropped bombs in Bentiu town - apparently they were aiming for a bridge,” South Sudan’s deputy information minister Atem Yaak Atem told AFP.

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Al-Shabaab militants have moved north to semi-autonomous Puntland after being pushed out of central Somalia, Puntland President Abdirahman Farole says.

They are there to strengthen ties with al-Qaeda in Yemen, which lies a short distance across the sea, he told the BBC.

Al-Shabaab, hardline Islamists, merged with al-Qaeda in February.

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