NIMULE, SOUTH SUDAN - A customs officer was wounded and three freight trucks were torched when armed men attacked the town of Nimule near the border with Uganda, officials and residents said Monday.
Nimule has remained largely unaffected by fighting that erupted around South Sudan in December 2013.
"Our forces around Nimule town at South Sudan’s border with Uganda... preempted an attack by government forces on their positions in the area," Gatdet said in a statement.
Gatdet said the rebels launched the attack to try to force the closure of "the trade route between Uganda and South Sudan at the Nimule border unless Salva Kiir’s government accepts peace and signs an agreement with the [opposition] Movement."
He said the fighting lasted three hours, ending "when our forces withdrew from the town, after destroying government’s war logistics in the area."