Juba. At least 165 people have died in the last week in clashes between the People's Liberation Army's (SPLA), the sursudanés regular army, armed militias and rebels, as reported on Monday the SPLA itself. A spokesman for the SPLA, Malaak Ayuen, explained that the clashes have been reported in Jonglei and Unity and the victims include military, rebels, members of tribes in northern Sudan and civilians.
The SPLA remains an open war with at least seven insurgent groups in southern Sudan, which also suffers incursions from the Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan military. In particular, Ayuen responsible for 101 of the deaths to an offensive launched on Tuesday at Unity by the forces of Peter Gadet, a renegade SPLA high command.
"In the fighting in Unity State have lost 26 soldiers of the SPLA and at least 70 rebels have been killed, probably more," he said. These figures do not include Sunday's clashes, when SPLA forces did to a group of rebels to the border with northern Sudanese. Three women and two children have died in the crossfire, in addition to the fighters killed.
In Jonglei State SPLA forces would have encountered other troops loyal to renegade commander, Gabriel Tang, on Saturday. Ayuen been estimated at 64 the deceased. "The SPLA has lost 7 soldiers and 57 rebels have died," he said. Tang himself would have surrendered with 1,300 of their fighters, according Ayuen, which did not specify whether they could benefit from the amnesty offered to the rebels by the sursudanés president, Salva Kiir.
Ayuen Jonglei stressed that civilian casualties have been low because the fighting took place in a sparsely populated area, but said that there are civilian casualties, tens, in the neighboring region of Malakal. 
The SPLA remains an open war with at least seven insurgent groups in southern Sudan, which also suffers incursions from the Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan military. In particular, Ayuen responsible for 101 of the deaths to an offensive launched on Tuesday at Unity by the forces of Peter Gadet, a renegade SPLA high command.
"In the fighting in Unity State have lost 26 soldiers of the SPLA and at least 70 rebels have been killed, probably more," he said. These figures do not include Sunday's clashes, when SPLA forces did to a group of rebels to the border with northern Sudanese. Three women and two children have died in the crossfire, in addition to the fighters killed.
In Jonglei State SPLA forces would have encountered other troops loyal to renegade commander, Gabriel Tang, on Saturday. Ayuen been estimated at 64 the deceased. "The SPLA has lost 7 soldiers and 57 rebels have died," he said. Tang himself would have surrendered with 1,300 of their fighters, according Ayuen, which did not specify whether they could benefit from the amnesty offered to the rebels by the sursudanés president, Salva Kiir.
Ayuen Jonglei stressed that civilian casualties have been low because the fighting took place in a sparsely populated area, but said that there are civilian casualties, tens, in the neighboring region of Malakal.
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