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July 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “We were left with no choice but to suspend our direct bilateral talks with Sudan,” spokesman for Juba’s delegation at the talks in Addis Ababa, Atif Kiir, said on Saturday.
South Sudanese military spokesman Philip Aguer said Sudanese war planes bombed the area of Rumaker in the Northern Bahr al Ghazal border state on Friday morning.
“This might have implications because maybe that is the intention of Sudan to bomb us and to stop talking,” Aguer added.
However, Sudan’s army spokesman al-Sawarmi Khalid denied its air force carrying out any such attack.
A new round of talks is due to begin on Sunday at the African Union headquarters, a week after Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir and his South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir held their first negotiation at a bloc summit.
The negotiations held to end the hostilities between the two countries and to reach an agreement on setting up a demilitarized region along their common border stalled in April, but resumed in May.
The two countries came close to all-out war in April after fighting between the two sides escalated over oil fields in the border town of Heglig.
The United Nations has set a deadline of August 2, 2012 for the neighboring countries to settle their disputes.
Sudan accuses South Sudan, which seceded from the Republic of Sudan in July 2011, of supporting anti-government rebels operating in the Darfur region and the states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan.
The new oil-rich nation is one of the least developed countries in the world, with one in every seven children dying before the age of five.
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