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On 22 December 2020, Sudan and Ethiopia commenced talks in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to demarcate their border in Ethiopia's Tigray region. The talks come following fighting between Sudanese Army [4] and Ethiopian Shifta forces [5] on farmlands in the border area, as well as following the tens of thousands of Ethiopians who fled into Sudan in November, as a result of the Tigray conflict.
Sudan closed the Gallabat-Metemma border crossing with Ethiopia on 3 April, two days after Ethiopian militias attacked Sudanese customs officials in the presence of the Ethiopian military. [37] Walid Ahmad al-Sajjan, commander of the Fifth Brigade of the Sudanese Armed Forces in Umm Barakit, stated on 8 April that the Sudanese military had ...
Ethiopia, Sudan, and Yemen formed a regional group early in 2003 that they said was designed to "combat terrorism" in the Horn of Africa. [143] Bilateral relations among countries in the Horn of Africa tended to be fickle. [143] However, Ethiopia and Sudan continued to make progress on settling border issues. [143]
Ethiopian Premier Abiy Ahmed met Sudan's army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Tuesday, becoming the first foreign leader to visit him in his war capital Port Sudan since the start of the ...
Ethiopia and Sudan are also in the process of linking their power grids. [228] In 2010s, Sudan—Egypt—Ethiopia joint relations was deteriorated as a result of Ethiopia failed to reach trilateral agreement regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project advanced.
When Sudan was under the colonial rule of the British Empire, there was no clear border demarcation between Ethiopia and Sudan. But in the 1902 Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty, [1] while Sudan was still under British rule, the British Empire demarcated a border by the help of Charles Gwynn, British royal engineer, without the presence of the Ethiopian ...
Sudan–Ethiopia relations had worsened following assassination attempt of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa in June 1995, where Meles alleged that Sudan plotted the assassination. In April 1996, Meles accused Khartoum of destabilizing the region and the Sudanese army was incapable of engaging in a large-scale conflict with its ...
United Nations Security Council resolution 1054, adopted on 26 April 1996, after reaffirming Resolution 1044 (1996) concerning the assassination attempt on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at an Organisation of African Unity (OAU) summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on 26 June 1995, the Council placed sanctions on the Government of Sudan after its failure to comply with OAU requests to ...