Juba said on Saturday it has canceled direct talks with Khartoum, after it accuses Khartoum of launching raid on its territory.

Juba said on Saturday it has canceled direct talks with Khartoum, after it accuses Khartoum of launching raid on its territory.

"We were left with no choice but to suspend our direct bilateral talks with Sudan," the spokesman for Juba's delegation at the talks in Addis Ababa, Atif Kiir, said.
"You cannot sit with them to negotiate when they are bombing our territory," he added.

"The only negotiations that will happen now will happen through the panel," he said, referring to an African Union mediation panel conducting the talks in the Ethiopian capital.

The negotiations to settle disputes stemming from the South's separation in July last year stalled in April, but resumed in May.

The South's military said Sudan has staged an air raid in the morning, wounding two people.
However, Khartoum said it has raided a rebel bastion in Darfur, in its teritory.