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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Photo taken on April 7, 2012 shows Ayub Awad, 23, a Sudan People's Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) soldier being attended at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, South Kordofan, Sudan, after he was badly burned during a bombing in the town of Jau by Sudan Armed Forces (SAF). Amid heavy artillery bombardments and airstrikes, Sudan described the South's seizure of the contested oil-producing Heglig region from its army as the worst violation of its territory, pulling out of African Union-led talks in protest and edging the closest to all-out war on April 11, 2012.
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