الثوار يسقطون طائرة حكومية بدارفور

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KHARTOUM, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Darfur rebel commanders said on Wednesday they had shot down a government MiG 29 plane they say was bombing civilian villages in their areas in Sudan's Darfur region but the army denied any plane had been shot down.

"We have downed a plane - MiG 29 around 4.5 km south of Adila yesterday around 5 p.m. (1400 GMT)," commander Abdel Aziz el-Nur Ashr from the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality and Movement (JEM) told Reuters by telephone.

Adila is in the far east of South Darfur state. Last week the government accused the rebels of attacking the government-controlled town.

The Justice and Equality Movement said the government attacked their areas around Adila ahead of a U.N.-African Union mediated meeting of rebel factions in Tanzania to renew the peace process.




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