Sudan army denies rebel capture of Sudanese town

Sudan's army on Wednesday denied reports that the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) had captured a strategic area in South Kordofan state.

"The Talodi area is still under the control of the Sudanese army," army spokesman Col. Al-Sawarmy Khaled Saad told The Anadolu Agency.

He said Sudanese army forces were continuing efforts to end the insurgency in the country.

SPLM-N spokesman Arno Ngutulu Lodi had earlier claimed that his group had captured Talodi, a small town in the Nubia Mountains and a district of South Kordofan state.

Since 2011, the SPLM-N has waged an active insurgency against the Khartoum government in Sudan's southern Blue Nile and South Kordofan states.

Outlawed by the government, the movement consists mainly of fighters who sided with the south during Sudan's decades-long civil war.