Sudan, rebels in new Darfur clash

Sudanese forces and rebels have clashed in southern Darfur, both sides said yesterday, the latest unrest in a region where the government has warned about insecurity.
Both the army and the Sudan Liberation Army's Minni Minnawi faction claimed to have inflicted heavy losses on each other in Monday's battle at Marla, about 50 kilometres southeast of the country's second city, Nyala.
In another incident, on Sunday night, the rebels shelled "in the area" of the Nyala airport but aviation was unaffected, said Hussein Minnawi of the rebels' political bureau.