South Sudan Shot Down Sudanese Warplane, Minister Says
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South Sudan said it shot down a Sudanese MiG jet fighter flying over its Unity state, a sign of heightening tensions between the former civil war foes.
“This is proof of what we were talking about for the past month: that the Republic of Sudan was invading our airspace and bombing our villages and towns,” Minister of Information Barnaba Marial Benjamin said today by phone from Juba, the capital. Sudan army spokesman al-Sawarami Khaled denied one of his military’s planes was shot down.