Southern Sudan troops in attack

April 21, 2011 last updated at 00: 28 GMT were at least 20 South Sudanese army soldiers in a clash with rebel fighters killed.

A spokesman for the Sudanese Army South, the SPLA, said the soldiers came as rebels attack village in the Unity State.

The State oil-producing is in the North of the region, which will be an independent country in July after the last petition for a referendum.

There were a number of recent attacks in the region.

Heads of State and Government in the South have accused armed rebels to try the Government in Khartoum, something Khartoum destabilize their region - denied.

Voted in Sudan's South, from the North in a referendum promised under a peace agreement in 2005 to separate that since ended decades of civil war.

The underdeveloped region is the source of most Sudanese 500,000 barrels per day of oil.

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