Two officers within the Sudanese military had been killed on right now in armed clashes with Ethiopian forces on the border between the 2 nations, Anadolu Company stories.
A Sudanese army supply informed Anadolu Company that the 2 officers had been killed within the disputed Al-Fashqa border space.
The supply, who spoke on situation of anonymity, added that the Sudanese military had additionally suffered different casualties as Ethiopian forces carried out an incursion into the Sudanese territory.
Earlier on Saturday, the Sudan Tribune information web site reported that the Sudanese military had repelled an try by the Ethiopian troops and its allied the Amhara militia to push deep into Sudan.
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The web site mentioned Ethiopia goals to help farmers in its northern Amhara area to reap land they planted in Sudanese territory, in addition to to chop off Tigray rebels preventing Ethiopian forces additional south for the Bahir Dar space, additionally in Amhara.
Neither facet made any official feedback.
With a 1,600-kilometer (994-mile) border, Sudan and Ethiopia not too long ago renewed a battle for the al-Fashqa Triangle, a decades-long disputed border space missing particular demarcation.
Whereas Khartoum mentioned on Dec. 31, 2020, that it imposed its management over the Sudanese territory the place Ethiopian militias had been current, Addis Ababa accuses Sudan’s army of occupying Ethiopian territory, as effectively, a declare its northern neighbour denies.
