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[O]n 5 December, the Ugandan army said it had strengthened its forces on the Sudan border because Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels were fighting alongside Sudanese troops against the Sudan People's Liberation Army and this could spill over the border. Khartoum denies Ugandan charges that it arms Uganda's rebels. Eritrean President Issayas Aferworki, who is keen on the idea of regional integration, made no bones about the international dimension of his accusations against Sudan. Condemning `the design of the government in Khartoum to destabilise the whole region', he said that Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda were all affected. but sometimes it is necessary; people need to learn the hard way'. Issayas is close to Presidents Meles Zenawi and Yoweri Museveni who, with President Daniel arap Moi (no friend of Khartoum), form the peace committee sponsoring the stalled talks between Khartoum and the SPLA.
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The Eastern Front is a coalition of rebel groups operating in eastern Sudan along the border with Eritrea, particularly the states of Red Sea and Kassala. The Eastern Front's Chairman is Musa Mohamed Ahmed. While the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) was the primary member of the Eastern Front, the SPLA was obliged to leave by the January 2005 agreement that ended the Second Sudanese Civil War. Their place was taken in February 2004 after the merger of the larger Beja Congress with the smaller Rashaida Free Lions, two tribal based groups of the Beja and Rashaida people, respectively. [20] The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), a rebel group from Darfur in the west, then joined.
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A home to close to 600 ethnic groups, Sudan has been at war since independence from the British in 1956 with only 11-year's hiatus between 1972-83. The current phase of civil strife, which, in its broadest sense, pits the Arab and Islamic north against the predominantly Christian and traditionalist south, has claimed an estimated 2 million lives. The war, now in its 17th year, has seen splits and counter splits in the main rebel group, the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) along ethnic lines with devastating consequences on over 100 language groups in the south.
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