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**The UN-African Union mission in Sudan is helping Darfur rebels by supplying them with equipment, Sudan’s army says.**The military said rebels had stolen six trucks from the peacekeepers, but they had failed to report the incident.
The joint UN-AU mission, Unamid, dismissed the claim, saying the stolen trucks had been reported.
The BBC’s James Copnall in Khartoum says the accusation highlights the frosty relations between allies of President Omar al-Bashir and the UN.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is due to rule on Wednesday whether to charge President Bashir with genocide over killings in Darfur.
The court already has a warrant for his arrest on war crimes, but it is due to rule on a prosecution appeal to have genocide charges added.
‘Totally unfounded’
The court accuses Mr Bashir’s government of backing Arab militias who killed thousands of black African Darfuris.
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Mr Bashir has repeatedly said he had no control over the actions of people on the ground in Darfur at the height of the violence in 2003 and 2004.
The UN has estimated 300,000 people died in the worst years of the Darfur conflict, and says some 2.5 million are still living in temporary camps.
In a statement broadcast on TV in Sudan, the army accused Unamid of colluding with rebels from the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) - one of the group which took up arms in 2003.
But Unamid official Kemal Saiki told Reuters news agency the accusations were “totally unfounded”.
He said Unamid reported the carjacking of the lorries - which belonged to a contractor - the same day it happened.
Unamid has some 20,000 personnel in Sudan.
Some observers have expressed fears that elections due in April could rekindle tensions between rival groups across the country.