location: Ed Damazin
notes: Some 66 rebels were killed and more than 70 others injured in armed clashes between the Sudanese army and rebels of Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM)/ northern sector in Blue Nile state, official SUNA news agency reported. The Sudanese army announced on Monday (February 18th) that it has reclaimed back an area in the border state of Blue Nile from the rebels of the Sudan People Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N).The army spokesperson Colonel Al-Sawarmi Khalid Saad was quoted by Sudan official news agency (SUNA) as saying that they liberated Mafo which lies in the southwest part of the state.
target_text: location: Ed Damazin, fatalities: 38