By MAWAHIB ABDALLATIF More by this AuthorSudan and Ethiopia have chosen dialogue in an attempt to resolve a perennial border crisis caused by clashes over arable land by border communities. Prime ministers Abdallah Hamdok and Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed met in Djibouti this past week as tensions escalated along their common border. There have been a series of clashes on the border which forced the Sudanese military to send reinforcements, days after an ambush by Ethiopian militia in which Sudanese soldiers were killed. AdvertisementThe Sudanese News Agency said that the Sudanese armed forces continued to advance on the front lines inside Al-Fashaqa. The clashes date back to the turn of the 1900s following an incomplete demarcation of borders between Britain and Ethiopia then under Emperor Menelik II.

Source: Ethiopian News December 30, 2020 06:11 UTC