Sudan Armed Forces Deploy Along Southern Border

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The Satellite Sentinel Project has released images showing Sudanese Armed Forces deployments at the time of South Sudan's independence referendum.

This high-resolution image of an outpost near Muglad in South Kordofan province....
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.... Shows, in this close-up excerpt, the outlines of probable armoured personnel carriers, upper centre right, and heavy equipment transporters, middle centre right.
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This image of an outpost near Kadugli, South Kordofan...
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... Reveals in close-up a helicopter, possibly an Mi-8 military helicopter.
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In a compound at an outpost near Kharassana...
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...A close-up shows the outlines of towed artillery pieces.
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These satellite images of an encampment elsewhere in South Kordofan...
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... Bring into focus, on a closer view, military trenching, foxholes and shelters.
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While this image of a road near Kadugli...
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... Shows, when zooming in, evidence of the barriers of a checkpoint.

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