The Ethiopian government announced on Thursday that at least 27 people were killed in clashes between two states that have been in conflict along the borders, at a time when the country is facing increasing acts of ethnic violence.
The government added, in a statement, that the dead people were killed due to the conflicts along the borders of the Somalian region and Afar, Sky News reported.
The federal government redrew the borders between the two states in 2014 and transferred three small towns to Afar, but the Somali region has wanted to regain them since then.
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