Khartoum: Rhino – The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) led by Abdel Aziz al-Hilu announced on Tuesday that it repelled an attack by the army forces and allied Islamic Movement militias in the early hours of Monday morning, inside its areas of control, with the aim of advancing and capturing these areas.

The SPLA forces inflicted heavy losses on the attacking force in terms of lives and equipment, after they tried to penetrate into the SPLA-controlled areas, the movement said in a statement on Tuesday.

The SPLM confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that the army’s aggressive movements against it began on January 30, 2025, when they marched to the “Kweik” area and stationed at the “Hajar al-Mak” mountain On February 1, 2025, they started shelling SPLM-controlled areas in (Kiga, Saraf al-Dai, Telo, Dashul, Hajr al-Mak), after which citizens were forcibly taken from inside Kadugli neighborhoods to Hajr al-Mak and placed in the line of fire.

The statement said: “What happened by the ‘Port Sudan militias’ is an extension of the continuous attacks they have been carrying out since the bombing of the city of Yabus in the New Fung region on December 19, 2024 and the killing of three employees of the SPLM: December 19, 2024 and the killing of three World Food Program employees, followed by the attack on several areas in the Nuba Mountains region with the aim of expelling humanitarian relief agencies and stopping the delivery of humanitarian aid to the affected people.

There are other similar movements from the city of Dilling, but the SPLA-N is monitoring all these movements and is fully prepared and ready to respond to any attack or aggression targeting the areas under its control.