Caught between Juba and Khartoum: The double 'game' of China
Rebel troops of the Sudan People's Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) unload their weapons at their military site in Juba on April 25, 2016. AFP PHOTO
Weapons manufactured by China and sold to Sudan have been funnelled to rebels in South Sudan, where two Chinese peacekeepers were recently killed.
The London-based Conflict Armament Research group said that in May it documented 1,300 boxes of ammunition captured by the government military, which is still referred to by its civil war-era name, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. Government forces captured the ammunition from a rebel faction of the military known as the SPLA in Opposition, or SPLA-IO.
