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Sudan and Ethiopia agree to prevent border infringements

July 9, 2018 at 12:05 pm

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during the Ethiopian parliamentary session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 6 July 2018 [Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency]

The joint security committee made up of officials from the Sudanese town of Al-Fashqa and their counterparts from Ethiopia’s Amhara Region has agreed to prevent border infringements in the forests in both countries, it was announced on Sunday by the Sudanese Media Centre.

“The committee stressed during a meeting held last weekend the importance of stability on the border and the formation of a small joint committee to follow up on security issues there,” explained the Governor Al-Fashqa, Mohammed Adam Idris. He added that the small committee will start the work of the committee immediately. “It is important to maintain stability as the key to the development of the region’s peoples and strengthening the strategic and historical relations between them,” he stressed.

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir received a message last week from Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed just days after violence erupted between farmers on both sides of the border. A number of people were wounded in the clashes.

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