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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

South Sudan to receive anti-aircraft missiles within months

[General James Hoth Mai]The Chief of General Staff of South Sudan’s military, General James Hoth Mai, on Tuesday said that within a "few months" the government will provide anti-aircraft missiles to country’s army apparently to counter air raids by the Sudan Armed Forces.

South Sudan’s army (SPLA) will soon "not have an issue with air defence," Mai said Tuesday at a meeting of high-ranking military officers, during a briefing over the government’s decision to withdraw troops from Panthou/Heglig.

The newly independent state of South Sudan which accuses regularly Khartoum of bombing inside its territory has no anti-aircraft batteries or warplanes to compensate the imbalance of military power.

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