Rebels shell Sudan oil state capital

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Insurgents shelled the main city of Sudan's oil-producing South Kordofan state near the border with South Sudan on Monday, both sides said, their first assault on the government stronghold since last year. Government radio said the shelling killed five people and wounded at least 23, without saying whether they were military or civilian casualties. Fighting in the state has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes and stoked tensions between Sudan and South Sudan since they split apart last year under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war. ...

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