SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga – Sudan-Ethiopia border demarcation talks end without results

24/12/2020: Radio Dabanga – Sudan-Ethiopia border demarcation talks end without results

 Radio Dabanga report that border demarcation negotiations between Sudanese and Ethiopian government delegations in Khartoum concluded without any results.

Sources say the negotiations failed because the Ethiopian delegation refused to recognise the 1903 border demarcation, saying that the British-Ethiopian treaty on the border was signed in colonial times.

Radio Dabanga explain that since Sudan’s independence in 1956, the 1,600 kilometre border with Ethiopia has not had a clear demarcation, thereby making it easy for Ethiopian militants to occupy farmlands in eastern al-Gedaref.

Ethiopian farmers have been cultivating crops for decades under protection by Ethiopian gunmen, but farmers in al-Fashaga, backed by al-Gadarif’s governor, demanded in July 2020 that these lands be returned.