After a meeting between Hamdok and Abi Ahmed

The Joint Ethiopia-Sudan Boundary Commission will return to work tomorrow

Ethiopian refugees cross the border into Sudan.

Reuters

The office of the Sudanese Prime Minister, Abdullah Hamdok, announced yesterday that the joint committee on the borders between Sudan and Ethiopia will return to work, tomorrow, due to tension on the borders and the killing of Sudanese soldiers, last Tuesday, and the office said in a press statement after a meeting between Hamdok and his Ethiopian counterpart, Abiy Ahmed, yesterday The meeting touched on the holding of the High Boundary Commission between the two countries.

The meeting of the prime ministers of Sudan and Ethiopia came on the sidelines of the summit of the Organization of East African Development States (IGAD) in Djibouti, which brings together seven East African countries.

The last meeting on border demarcation was held in May 2020 in Addis Ababa, and a new meeting was scheduled to take place a month later, but it was canceled, and the rainy season made it more difficult to establish border points between the two countries in this region.

The date of the border demarcation agreement dates back to May 1902 between Britain and Ethiopia, but there are still gaps in some points, which regularly cause accidents with Ethiopian farmers who come to work in lands that Sudan asserts that fall within its borders, and the official Sudanese News Agency reported yesterday. , That Sudan sent large military reinforcements to the borders, days after the "ambush" of the Ethiopian army and militias against Sudanese soldiers.

She added, "The Sudanese armed forces continued their advances in the front lines inside Al-Fashaqa, to restore usurped lands and to station them on international lines in accordance with the agreements of 1902."

The head of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, visited the border region, last Thursday, two days after the attack on the army force, which killed an officer and three soldiers and wounded 27.

Sudan, especially the state of Gedaref bordering Ethiopia, is witnessing a major humanitarian crisis after the arrival of 50 thousand Ethiopian refugees, fleeing the war in the Tigray region, according to the United Nations.

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