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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Sudan<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>South Sudan\u2019s holdout opposition South Sudan United Front\/Army (SSUF\/A) led by former army chief, Gen. Paul Malong Awan, has dismissed as unfounded that senior rebel officers who defected to Machar last week in Cairo are its members.<\/p>\n

Last week, at least ten senior opposition officers who said they belong to the Malong-led movement declared their intention to join the Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM\/A-IO)<\/p>\n

In a statement extended to Sudans Post, Major Philip Deng Kuol Nguot, deputy spokesman of the Malong-led rebel group said the rebel officers who declare their defection to Machar in Cairo last week are not in their record don\u2019t have the name of the officers in their record.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe office of the SSUF\/A Deputy Military Spokesperson would like to optimistically dismisses those unfounded names which never been our members as they claimed,\u201d Kuol said in the statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are an individual\u2019s in the tea stalls in Cairo who master-minded to be the SSUF\/A partisans that would give them more respects from wherever they\u2019re heading to as a plan,\u201d the statement added. The statement further said that \u201cSSUF\/A has a well-known Generals at the Headquarters and those on their deployments on the ground in South Sudan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe office of the SSUF\/A Deputy Military Spokesperson enlightens the general public and our supporters to ignore those trending names on social media just as a seeking financial mechanism personnel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Sudan. South Sudan\u2019s holdout opposition South Sudan United Front\/Army (SSUF\/A) led by former army chief, Gen. Paul Malong Awan, has dismissed as unfounded that senior rebel officers who defected to Machar last week in Cairo are its members. 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