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15 June 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 10:48 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Some 60,000 people have fled bombing in Sudan’s South Kordofan region near the north-south border, the UN says.<\/p>\n

Northern forces are accused of targeting the area’s pro-southern groups, as oil-rich South Sudan prepares for independence next month.<\/p>\n

US President Barak Obama has called for a ceasefire following the upsurge of fighting, to prevent a return to the two-decade north-south civil war.<\/p>\n

A local rights group said Khartoum’s campaign has killed about 65 people.<\/p>\n

Khartoum was pursuing a genocidal campaign in South Kordofan, the Sudan Democracy First Group said, AFP news agency reports.<\/p>\n

But a spokesman for the Sudanese embassy in London, Ibrahim Mubarak, said pro-south militias were responsible for the conflict.<\/p>\n

“They are not disciplined. They attacked UN forces and Sudanese army forces and instigated the whole situation,” he told the BBC’s Network Africa programme.<\/p>\n

‘Growing panic’<\/span><\/p>\n

The UN humanitarian agency, Ocha, said 11 areas were affected by the violence, forcing many people to hide in mountainous areas.<\/p>\n

“There is a growing sense of panic among some of the displaced populations who find themselves trapped by the ongoing violence and ethnic fault lines,” it added.<\/p>\n

Sudanese fighter jets dropped 11 bombs in the areas of Kadugli and Kauda early on Wednesday, apparently targeting an airfield, a UN observer mission spokesman in Sudan, Kouider Zerrouk, told AFP.<\/p>\n

The UN had appealed to the Sudanese government to allow planes to land at the main airport in Kadugli so that it could carry out relief efforts.<\/p>\n

Roadblocks manned by militia were preventing aid reaching thousands of people in need, the UN said.<\/p>\n

In a recorded audio message, Mr Obama said both the north and south should “live up to their responsibilities” by ending the conflict.<\/p>\n

Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n

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The humanitarian challenge is already great\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

End Quote<\/span> Rowan Williams<\/span> Archbishop of Canterbury<\/span><\/div>\n

“The government of Sudan must prevent a further escalation of this crisis by ceasing its military actions immediately, including aerial bombardments, forced displacements and campaigns of intimidation,” he added.<\/p>\n

Southern Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin welcomed Mr Obama’s remarks and said a well-planned disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programme was needed instead of the current use of force.<\/p>\n

‘Another Darfur’<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the head of the worldwide Anglican church, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, said the unrest was a major threat to the stability of Sudan.<\/p>\n

“The humanitarian challenge is already great, and the risk of another Darfur situation, with civilian populations at the mercy of government-supported terror, is a real one,” the archbishop said, according to AFP.<\/p>\n

The bombing in South Kordofan follows a deal for both sides to withdraw from the nearby disputed town of Abyei.<\/p>\n

Clashes over the past month in Abyei and South Kordofan have raised fears of renewed north-south conflict despite a 2005 peace deal which paved the way for the end of decades of war.<\/p>\n

Talks on issues about the upcoming split between Sudanese government officials and representatives of the south are continuing following Monday’s deal for both sides to withdraw from Abyei.<\/p>\n

President Omar al-Bashir and southern leader Salva Kiir agreed that Abyei, claimed by both sides, would be demilitarised, with Ethiopian troops ensuring security.<\/p>\n

No time frame has been published.<\/p>\n

The north-south war ended with a 2005 peace deal, under which the mainly Christian and animist south held a referendum in January on whether to secede from the largely Arabic-speaking, Muslim north.<\/p>\n

Some 99% of voters opted for independence. President Bashir said he would accept the verdict of the south, where most of Sudan’s oil fields lie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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