Sudanese truce in tatters

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Sudanese troops violating a two-day old ceasefire fired mortars on Monday at a rebel base in western Sudan, a day after killing two rebels in an air strike, a rebel leader charged.

Rebel leader Mani Arkoi Minawi said that Sudanese troops and allied militias had fired mortars at bases of his Sudan Liberation Movement in North Darfur.

The SLM secretary general added that "two Sudan Liberation Movement fighters were killed and four wounded in a helicopter raid by government forces" in Kutum.

Minawi had told reported on Sunday that two government helicopters had bombarded a rebel base in an inhabited area of Kutum, but he did not say whether there were any casualties.

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