SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Sudanese troops have been deployed on the border in agreement with Ethiopia’s PM: al-Burhan
Sudan Tribune reports that the head of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, Lt. Gen. Abdelfattah al-Burhan, said he agreed with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to deploy Sudanese troops to “prevent border infiltration to and from Sudan by an armed party.”
Al-Burhan said the army has no intention to wage war against Ethiopia and that the army is deployed within the Sudanese borders.
He also added that when he was previous based on the border, “Ethiopians argued that they had internal problems and that the situation did not allow marking the borders," adding that the regime of Omar al-Bashir “assessed the situation and gave us instructions to withdraw".
Sudan Tribune add that al-Bashir “is accused of facilitating the occupation of Sudanese borderland for over 20 years.”