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Sudan’s army recaptured the border that had been taken by Ethiopian farmers, says the Sudanese Foreign Ministry.
Sudan’s foreign minister says the army has restored control of all the land along the border that had been taken by Ethiopian farmers.
“The armed forces have completely regained all of Sudan’s territory,” Minister Omar Qamareddine told a press conference in Khartoum on Thursday.
“The borders have already been demarcated, all that remains in our talks … is to increase the border signals,” Qamareddine said.
Tensions have flared between the two countries over the al-Fashqa border region, where Ethiopian farmers have been cultivating fertile land claimed by Sudan.
The region has seen sporadic clashes over the years, but new clashes erupted in November when the federal government dispatched troops to the neighboring Tigray region of Ethiopia against regional authorities.
About 50,000 Ethiopian refugees crossed the border to escape the fighting.
Earlier this month, Khartoum accused Ethiopian “forces and militias” of ambushing Sudanese troops along the border, leaving about four dead and more than 20 injured.
Addis Ababa played down the reported ambush and said it did not threaten the relationship between the two countries.
Since then, Sudan has deployed troops to the border region and held demarcation talks with its neighbor to the east.
Ethiopian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Dina Mufti blamed “external forces” for the tensions with Sudan.
He said in a report on Wednesday that these forces “do not care about the Ethiopian and Sudanese peoples, but they want the region to be in chaos and they want to benefit from that chaos.”
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