Sudan conflict

South Sudan, embroiled in border fighting with its northern neighbour Sudan for the past month, has that sudanese-backed rebel militia had attacked a town in the south's oil-producing upper nile state, broadening the conflict….meanwhile Sudan’s government has ordered its civil servants to donate part of their salaries to support the army….Sudan’s finance minister Ali Mahmud Al-Rasul has also cut the petrol rations of government departments by 50 per cent….