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Sudan starts withdrawal from border buffer zone -SUNA

by Reuters
Tuesday, 12 March 2013 20:10 GMT

KHARTOUM, March 12 (Reuters) - Sudan's armed forces have started to withdraw from a buffer zone on the border with South Sudan, Sudan's state news agency SUNA said on Tuesday, after agreeing to do so in talks in Ethiopia.

"The armed forces have started the withdrawal from the demilitarised zone along the border separating Sudan and South Sudan," SUNA reported, quoting the armed forces spokesman, al-Sawarmi Khalid Saad.

(Writing by Alexander Dziadosz; Editing by Michael Roddy)

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