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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abi Ahmed said he is following the border incident with Sudan and indicated that it will not affect relations with Khartoum.
On Thursday, the Sudanese army announced that it had sent large reinforcements to the Ethiopian border following the death of several of its soldiers. Khartoum also lodged a complaint with the African Union and the organization “IGAD” about the Ethiopian attacks.
This comes as the head of the Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Muhammad Othman Al-Hussein, and army commanders arrived in Gedaref state to inspect the Sudanese forces. after the attack by Ethiopian and Amhara forces.
The Sudanese army said, in its statement, that it is communicating with Addis Ababa to stop attacks by Ethiopian militias and forces, emphasizing: “We will vigorously confront any military attempt to penetrate our borders.”
Sudanese websites quoted soldiers returning from border battles as saying that they had been bombarded by the Ethiopian army and that the army was caught by an Ethiopian artillery barrage during a border combing operation, emphasizing that the attack on the army came from forces organized and not militias.
The Sudanese Armed Forces said on Wednesday that its forces were “ambushed by Ethiopian forces and militias” during a security patrol in the border region.
“As our forces were returning from combing the area around Jabal Abu Tayyour, within our lands, they were ambushed by Ethiopian forces and militias within Sudanese territory,” he added in a statement, noting that the attack took place on Tuesday.
The Sudanese military did not specify how many of its personnel died.
Clashes broke out on November 4 between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, the former ruling party, in the northern region of Ethiopia.
Thousands of people are believed to have died and more than 950,000 have been displaced, some 50,000 of them to Sudan, according to United Nations estimates.
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok visited Ethiopia for a brief period on Sunday and conveyed to his officials his concerns about threats to Sudan’s security along its border with Tigray.
