JUBA (Reuters) - Seventeen people have been killed in fighting in Sudan's South Kordofan state, the official news agency SUNA reported Saturday, while in Blue Nile state, up to 3,000 people have fled clashes between the army and rebels formerly aligned to South Sudan.
Analysts say Khartoum is trying to strike against the rebels in South Kordofan and Blue Nile before they become a serious political and military threat.
South Sudan seceded from Sudan -- at the time Africa's largest country -- in July, six years after a ceasefire that ended decades of civil war between north and south.
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