A Sudanese military source told Al Jazeera that 6 members of the Sudanese army, including two officers, were killed in confrontations with groups affiliated with the Ethiopian army in the Al-Fashqa Al-Soghra area on the border with Ethiopia.
The source said that reinforcements from the Sudanese infantry were sent to the area to counter the Ethiopian attack.
A statement of the Sudanese army had confirmed that its forces repelled the attack of the Ethiopian forces at Al-Fashqa Al-Soghra, and inflicted the attacking groups with "significant" losses in lives and equipment.
The statement stressed that the Sudanese armed forces will remain on the lookout to try to thwart the harvest season in Al-Fashqa.
In a parallel context, a well-informed military source revealed to Al Jazeera that the head of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, issued a decision dismissing Yasser Mohamed Othman, the director of military intelligence of the Sudanese army, and the director of general intelligence, Jamal Abdel Majid.
The source confirmed to Al-Jazeera that Al-Burhan issued another decision appointing Major General Muhammad Ahmed Saber as Director of Military Intelligence, and Lieutenant-General Ahmed Ibrahim Mufaddal as Director of General Intelligence.
Resignation of the Chief of Police and his Deputy
The office of Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok also announced that the Prime Minister issued a decision to relieve the Sudanese Police Director and his deputy from their posts.
Hamdok appointed Anan Hamed Muhammad Omar as Director-General of the Police Forces, and Mudasir Abd al-Rahman Nasr al-Din Abdullah as Deputy Director-General of the Police Forces and General Inspector.
The prime minister did not specify the reasons for dismissing the police director and his deputy, but the two men were supervising the security forces that responded to the demonstrations, which left 42 dead - including 4 boys - and hundreds wounded.
Although the police denied firing at the demonstrators, the doctors' union accused the security forces of "targeting the heads, necks and chests" of the demonstrators with live and rubber bullets, and also fired tear gas at them.
In recent weeks, hundreds of political activists, journalists, and sometimes just passersby have been arrested.
The Prime Minister - who was arrested and then placed under house arrest - stressed in his first appearance after returning to his position that his priority is to "stop the bloodshed."