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Country to
work with Sudan on border security
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 ADDIS
ABEBA(July 14,2008) - Ethiopia and Sudan will strengthen
ways of resolving "minor" border clashes after Sudan said
Ethiopian troops attacked a Sudanese army camp and killed about 19
people, Ethiopian state media said on Friday.
Sudan's military said the attack happened on Monday in the Jabel Hantub
area of Sennar state. Ethiopian officials played down the charge and
denied any soldiers were involved.
Ethiopia's state news agency ENA said Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum
Mesfin met the chief of Sudan's intelligence forces, Salah Gosh, in
Addis Ababa on Friday.
"It was disclosed during the discussion that minor misunderstandings
leading to infrequent clashes occur between the peoples living along
the common border," ENA said.
"According to senior foreign ministry officials who attended
the discussion, the two parties reached agreement to strengthen the
implementation of systems designed earlier by the two countries to
solve the problem," it said, without elaborating.
Sudan signed a north-south peace deal in 2005 which ended Africa's
longest civil war and also improved relations with its neighbours
across east Africa.
Earlier this week, a Sudanese security source and another government
official said a decision by Sudan to give refuge to several local
Ethiopian officials a few weeks earlier might have prompted Monday's
attack.
It was not clear why the officials sought refuge in Sudan. Ethiopia
is fighting rebels from the Oromo region which borders Sudan and who
want greater autonomy for their areas. |
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