LEAD: Sudan accuses Ethiopian troops of attempted 'incursion'
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese army has accused Ethiopian troops of trying to infiltrate into Sudan on Saturday to retake an arable land strip separating the two countries.
Sudan earlier this year said its troops regained Fashaga area and cleared it of heavy Ethiopian armed militias.
Lt. Gen. Abdul Fatah Al Burhan said: "The Sudanese Armed Forces have confronted and thwarted an incursion attempt by the Ethiopian forces into Sudanese territory at Umm Barakit sector in Fashaga area."
Speaking at an inauguration of a specialised hospital in Khartoum on Sunday, he said that Ethiopian troops “ran away leaving behind their dead and wounded” and belongings. No further details are available.
The official Sudan News Agency (SUNA) quoted Brigadier Al-Tahir Abuhaja, Media Adviser to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, as saying in a press statement that the Sudanese Armed Forces had confronted the incursion attempt and compelled the Ethiopian forces to withdraw.
The development came at a time the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has called for the resumption of negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which have been stalled since last April.
The official media in Khartoum said during a meeting with the Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Demeke Mekonnen, in New York, the UN Secretary General stressed the importance of resuming the negotiations between the three countries affected by the GERD – Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia – in a spirit of compromise.
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