Sudanese Army Sends Military Reinforcements to Border Area with Ethiopia

Today, Saturday, the Sudanese army issued a statement announcing the dispatch of large military reinforcements to the Al-Fashqa area, an eastern patch of land located on the border with Ethiopia.

The "Al-Sudani" news website quoted the statement of the Sudanese Armed Forces as saying that dispatching of Sudanese military reinforcements came to secure the end of the agricultural season in Al-Fashqa.

This step comes in light of the passage of the Sudanese border with Ethiopia in a cautious calm since the Sudanese army’s decision to redeploy it in Al-Fashqa on the border last year, following violent armed confrontations with the Ethiopian forces and militias illegally settled inside the Sudanese borders.

It is noteworthy that Sudan is still receiving more Ethiopian refugees following the outbreak of a fierce war between Abi Ahmed's government and the Tigray Liberation Front in the region bordering Sudan.

Earlier last September, the Sudanese army announced that Ethiopian forces had made an attempt to penetrate Sudanese territory, but they were confronted and forced to withdraw.

However,  the Sudanese News Agency quoted the Sudanese army, as saying that the Ethiopian incursion attempt was in the Umm Barakit sector in the Al-Fashqa area.

On the other hand, the Supreme Council of Beja in eastern Sudan threatened to "separate" from the country, if the central government did not implement their demands.

"Al-Sharq" News channel said that the threat launched by the Supreme Council of Beja comes as the latest escalation between the government and the protesters in the east of the country.

The Secretary-General of the Media of the Supreme Council of Beja,   Othman Kluj, delivered a speech on Facebook, in which he said, "If the central government is unable to implement our demands, we will enter the last square, which is autonomy and secession."

Kluj called on the central government, with its civilian and military sides, to provide what he described as a separate platform to raise their issues with the reference of the Senkat Conference, a conference that was held in September 2020, in which demands were put forward for a unified territory for the states of eastern Sudan.

Kluj also suggested the establishment of a joint supreme coordinating body among all components of eastern Sudan.