Ethiopia/Sudan: Sudan Accuses Ethiopia of Incursion, Escalating Land Dispute

Feb 15, 2021 | Simon Marks and Mohammed Alamin, Bloomberg
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Sudan accused Ethiopian forces of entering its territory, escalating a dispute over land that straddles their border. Relations between Sudan and Ethiopia have frayed since a war erupted in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region on Nov. 4. Officials in Ethiopia’s ethnic Amhara region have pressed the government to seize land that Sudan claims ownership of based on colonial treaties. Several deadly clashes have taken place in al-Fashqa, a fertile farming area on the two nations’ border.