Today, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry summoned the Ethiopian Chargé d'Affairs to Khartoum, and officially informed him of Sudan's protest against what the Sudanese army said was an incursion of an Ethiopian militia supported by the Ethiopian army into Sudanese territory, killing and wounding a number of officers and members of the armed forces and Sudanese citizens, including children.
The Sudanese army also accused the Addis Ababa authorities of obstructing the implementation of agreements on border issues between the two countries and "fabricating" current events.
The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs conveyed to the Ethiopian Chargé d'Affaires the condemnation and rejection of the Sudanese government for what it said was a "sinful aggression" coming at a time when preparations were being made in Khartoum to hold the second meeting of the joint committee on border issues.
And demanded that measures be taken to stop such attacks, and warned that the sustainability and development of cooperation between the two countries "must be based on mutual respect without the incursion or aggression of any party against the other."
The Sudanese private newspaper "Awal Al-Nahar" had earlier quoted unnamed diplomatic sources as saying that the Sudanese Foreign Ministry asked the Ethiopian Chargé d'Affaires to convey the protest to the authorities of his country, and Khartoum was keen on a peaceful solution to the border crisis in order to achieve stability, peace and peaceful coexistence between the residents of the two countries.
On the other hand, the Sudanese army spokesman, Brigadier General Amer Mohamed Al-Hassan, considered that the border issues with Ethiopia were fabricated by the Ethiopian side.
The spokesman added - during contact with Al Jazeera - that the crisis is due to the lack of implementation of solutions that are placed on both sides, and the absence of coordination in everything that is agreed upon between them.
In the same context, Sudanese government spokesman Faisal Mohamed Saleh said that Khartoum had made inquiries to Ethiopia regarding the attacks on Sudanese lands, indicating that his country expects a response from Ethiopia to its inquiry in the near future.
Ethiopian greed
"There are clear ambitions for the Ethiopian side in the Sudanese territories ... What is going on on the ground is a systematic work," the Sudanese News Agency quoted the Sudanese (East) Governor of Gedarefe in charge, Nasrudin Abdul-Qayyum Ahmed, as saying today.
He also pointed out that the area of agricultural lands that had been assaulted by the Ethiopian militia since the 1960s amounted to 700 thousand acres, expressing his hope that the contacts between the two countries would lead to results that lead to resolving the current border tension file.
It is noteworthy that the Sudanese army vowed on Friday to resolve "Al-Taflatat" on the border with Ethiopia, against the background of the death of one of its officers and the wounding of 7 soldiers as a result of attacks by an Ethiopian militia supported by the Ethiopian army, according to Khartoum. So far, there has been no comment from the Ethiopian side about the Sudanese army's accusations.