Reports: 2 Sudanese Soldiers Killed on Ethiopia Border

Two soldiers were killed and two others were wounded, on Thursday, after a powerful explosion rocked a Sudanese army camp on the borders of the states of Al Gedaref and Sennar, with Ethiopia.

Reliable military sources told Sudan Tribune that the sudden accident took place in the Umm Dablou border area with Sennar state, adjacent to Basindah locality in Gedaref state.

The sources added, "Two members of the joint armed forces were killed, and the same was wounded, and they were transferred to the city of Gedaref."

The sources pointed out that the explosion resulted from a "cannon explosion" inside the camp.

The armed forces did not issue any explanations about the incident, but other military sources confirmed the incident to "East Bloomberg".

On January 13, a military plane exploded in the eastern state of Gedaref, without revealing the reasons, as the plane was loaded with weapons and ammunition and was completely burned at Wad Zaed airport in the locality of Shawak.

The cabin crew survived the accident, which led to the plane being completely burned.

The Sudanese-Ethiopian border has been witnessing military tension during the past weeks, after Sudanese army elements were ambushed by Ethiopian forces and militias.

Armed clashes erupted late last year over the course of the disputed border for more than a century. Britain inpidually drew the borders in 1903, while Ethiopia says that some of its territory is within Sudan.

The Sudanese army forces were deployed along the border strip with Ethiopia, and the army was stationed in the territories that had been captured. 

Over the past decades, several attempts to agree on the route of the border were unsuccessful, and tens of thousands of Ethiopian farmers remain on the Sudanese side of the border.

The Sudanese News Agency reported that Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok had renewed Sudan’s stance that he did not intend to go to war with any country, stressing that “the territories in which the armed forces have re-deployed and opened up (on the border with Ethiopia) are not subject to conflict and should not be."