On the northern side of the border, rebellions in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states are worsening.
"We don't use cluster munitions in South Kordofan, we have no ties to such weapons, " military spokesman Al-Sawarmi Khalid told CNN.
The rebels claimed they were keeping the Chinese safe and demanded that China ask Sudan to stop bombing the South Kordofan region.
Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- In the village of Angolo, in Sudan's South Kordofan state, villagers stand over a deadly and illegal weapon.
Khartoum has repeatedly denied having any ties to Yau Yau's rebels and counter-accuses Juba of supporting rebels in Sudan's South Kordofan and Blue Nile states.
The villagers in this part of South Kordofan say they live in fear of the bombing raids by Sudanese airplanes that seem to happen almost daily.
Khartoum has denied accusations made by human rights groups that its army was carrying out ethnic cleansing in South Kordofan last year against the Nuba people, seen as supporting the rebels.
However, the grievances of the northern states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile remain unaddressed, as provisions laid out for them in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement were never fully implemented.
This latest evidence of cluster munitions in South Kordofan suggests that the Sudanese military is stepping up its campaign, but a Sudanese army spokesman flatly denied that they use cluster munitions.
The project analyzed images of air bases at El Obeid, North Kordofan state, and Kadugli, South Kordofan, and identified 13 fighter jets, eight helicopter gunships and three Antonov transport aircraft, which the Sudan Armed Forces uses for bombing.
According to new images released by the Satellite Sentinel project, a campaign group set up by Hollywood star George Clooney, the army in Sudan is preparing for a new assault in one of these regions, South Kordofan.
On Wednesday, 616 people reached the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan - the highest number yet recorded - escaping hunger and conflict across the border in South Kordofan, a bitterly contested region of Sudan better known as the Nuba Mountains.
If war broke out, it would probably be fought in the disputed oil fields in the borderlands between north and south: in southern Kordofan, Abyei, Unity and the Upper Nile states (see map).
Southern Kordofan remained under Sudan's control when South Sudan became independent.
Southern Kordofan, Blue Nile and the Nuba Mountain region straddle Sudan and South Sudan's ethnic and political lines.
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