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Children in Kadugli. Sources said the town itself has been hit by shelling/AFP

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Sudan rebels claim attack on S. Kordofan state capital

The deals signed include a key agreement on a demilitarised border buffer zone, where troops must withdraw 10 kilometres (six miles) from the de facto line of control along the undemarcated frontier.

The buffer zone is also designed to cut support for rebels in South Kordofan and Blue Nile state, where the SPLM-N has also been fighting. Khartoum accuses Juba of backing those insurgents and the South, in turn, accuses Sudan of arming rebels in its territory.

Sudanese army said rebels tried to get inside Kadugli town.

“This morning a group from SPLM-North tried to get inside Kadugli town and they shelled an area six kilometres (four miles) east of Kadugli. As a result of this a woman was killed and three citizens injured,” Sawarmi Khaled Saad, the Sudanese army spokesman, told AFP.

One Kadugli resident told AFP the shelling came from surrounding hills and lasted about two hours at mid-day.

“The shells fell in various parts of the town,” he said, adding that he saw some people wounded and damage to a school and homes.

Another resident also said he heard the firing.

“Because I am inside an office I didn’t see any wounded, but I heard the sound of the shelling,” he said.

The incident coincided with the start of talks in Kadugli between the ruling National Congress and other political parties about how to solve the war, which the UN says has displaced or severely affected hundreds of thousands of people.

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Ethnic minority insurgents from the SPLM-N previously fought alongside the rebels from southern Sudan who waged a 22-year civil war which ended in a 2005 peace deal that led to South Sudan’s independence last year.

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