Khartoum, Sudan, Oct 23, 2009 / 00:35 am
A Sudanese bishop has warned that the country could return to war, with tensions apparently increasing. “Something is in the air,” he said, noting reports that military groups are arming themselves in the run-up to the referendum on secession between the north and south.
“It needs just one single shot to explode and we will go back to the bush,” Bishop Macram Gassis of El Obeid, Sudan told Aid to the Church in Need.
He noted reports that both the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Army and the military in Khartoum are arming themselves.
“To see arms being amassed, to see military preparations being made – is this an indication of a peaceful mind? It indicates that something is in the air,” he commented.