The rebels accuse the government of South Sudan attacks

South Sudanese rebels said on Saturday the government troops had attacked their positions in the past three days, yet casting doubt on a fragile peace agreement in the youngest country in the world.
No one was immediately available for comment from the government – but both sides have regularly accused the other of breaking the ceasefire ratified by parliament in September under pressure from the UN powers, regional and global.
“For the last three days we have received a report from government forces on the offensive, attacking our positions in Unity state,” said the rebel spokesman James Gatdet Dak, referring to a growing region Oil on the northern border with Sudan.
“The intention was actually for them to control the areas that we have chosen for a number of months, which is a flagrant violation of a permanent peace agreement.”
South Sudan split away from Sudan in 2011 under a peace deal that ended decades of civil war North-South.
But a political feud between President Salva Kiir and Riek Machar sacked his deputy came down in the fight against the interior in December 2013, often along ethnic fault lines.
The fragile agreement, which followed a series of cease-fire failed, came under additional pressure when Kiir announced Friday it had increased the number of administrative states to 28 from 10, an action rebels say was taken unilaterally.