KHARTOUM, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Sudan's president accused former southern rebels of going back on the terms of a peace deal and warned there was a risk that conflict would re-erupt if the sides did not settle a list of disputes before a referendum.
The comments from President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, reported on state media, raised the stakes in a growing war of words between Khartoum and the south's dominant Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), five years after the sides ended decades of civil war with a 2005 accord.
"He (Bashir) warned that the failure in the settlement of these issues before the referendum would make the process as a project for a new dispute between the north and the south that can be much serious than the dispute which was existing before the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (the 2005 accord)," said Sudan's Suna state news agency, reporting on a speech given in Sirte, Libya on Saturday. (Reporting by Andrew Heavens; editing by David Stamp)
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