Sudan Prepared for War, Recent Clashes ‘Lessons’, Bashir Says
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Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir said today he is prepared for war, less than a month before Southern Sudan’s independence, and that recent border clashes with units from the south’s army were “lessons”.
Clashes along the north-south border have raised concern about a resumption of the two-decade civil war in sub-Saharan Africa’s third-biggest oil producer that ended with a 2005 peace agreement. The south is due to become independent on July 9.