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Border dispute prompts attack on South Sudan

Sudanese armed forces launched an attack more than six miles inside South Sudan’s border, an official said Sunday, days after the South announced it was pulling its troops from a disputed border town to avoid an all-out war between the two countries. Ground troops from Sudan launched three waves of attacks, the South Sudan military said.

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