African calls for reducing tension ... Ethiopia accuses Khartoum of violating the border agreement, and Sudan pledges to protect its territories.

The African Union Commission called for the need to reduce tension between Sudan and Ethiopia, amid mutual accusations between Addis Ababa and Khartoum of responsibility for the escalation between them.

The commission's envoy, Mohamed El-Hassan Ould Labat, stressed that the military solution does not serve either country, during a meeting with Sudanese Foreign Minister Maryam Al-Sadiq in the capital, Khartoum.

For her part, the Minister of Foreign Affairs affirmed Sudan's position and its keenness on strategic relations with Ethiopia, stressing her country's commitment to the guidelines and decisions of the African Union regarding the inherited borders, as well as accepting the report of African experts on the Renaissance Dam.

The minister said that the Sudanese are united today more than ever, regarding their sovereignty over all their lands and national security.

The Mufti accused Sudan of violating what he called the mutual recognition of the border agreement between the two countries (Anatolia)

Try to confuse

On the other hand, the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Dina Mufti, denounced the Sudanese accusations directed at his country, describing them as an attempt to confuse him only.

In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Mufti accused Sudan of violating what he called the mutual recognition of the border agreement, and said that the Sudanese are well aware of the third party that Ethiopia is concerned with regarding the border crisis between the two countries.

In turn, a member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council in Sudan, Yasser Al-Atta, said that the army had regained control of its lands on the border with Ethiopia.

Al-Atta stressed - in a meeting to support the armed forces in Khartoum - that the army will defend any inch of Sudan's land, whether in Fashaqa or Halayeb, stressing that Sudan is not greedy for any party’s territory.

An unforgivable insult

The Sudanese Foreign Ministry accused its Ethiopian counterpart of directing "an unforgivable insult" to Khartoum, and demanded that it desist from what it described as the allegations that are not supported by any right on the issue of the border between the two countries.

It said in a statement today that the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry came out with an unfortunate statement betraying the history of the two countries' relations, and degenerating in its description of Sudan to an "unforgivable insult."

He added that the issue of borders "cannot be a basis for the aggression with which Ethiopia is acting," considering that the borders were never in dispute until he came to the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "whoever uses them to serve personal interests and group purposes for a specific group, who proceed with them gambling with the great interests of the Ethiopian people." .

The statement did not explicitly mention the intended party of these accusations.

The Sudanese Foreign Ministry statement affirmed the sovereignty over the lands that Ethiopia says it belongs to, stressing that Khartoum will not give up the extension of its authority over it, calling on Addis Ababa to prevail over the will of peace.

third party

The Sudanese response came to this statement in which the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry condemned what it described as escalation and the provocative behavior of the Khartoum government on the issue of the border with Ethiopia.

The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said, "The conflict promoted by the military component in the Sudanese government can only serve the interests of a third party at the expense of the Sudanese people."

This is the first time since the beginning of the crisis that Addis Ababa has made clear accusations of what it called the military component in the Sudanese government, to escalate the conflict.

This escalation between the two countries coincided with news that the Chair of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki, presented an initiative to contain the border crisis between the two neighbors.

Relations between the two countries have been tense since last November, after the Sudanese forces redeployed on the borders and were stationed in the Fashaqa areas (eastern Sudan).