Two soldiers were killed and two others were injured “Thursday,” after a powerful explosion rocked a Sudanese army camp on the borders of the states of Gedaref and Sennar, which borders Ethiopia. Reliable military sources said that the sudden accident occurred in the “Umm Dabou” border area with the state of Sennar, adjacent to Basindah locality in the state of Gedaref.
She 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, according to (Sputnik) that the explosion was caused by 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 completely burned out at Wad Plus airport in Al Shawak locality. The flight crew survived the accident, which led to the plane being completely burned.
The Sudanese-Ethiopian borders are witnessing military tension during the past weeks, after Sudanese army elements were “ambushed by Ethiopian forces and militias,” while they were returning from “combing the area around Jabal Abutiour inside Sudanese territory,” which resulted in “loss of life and equipment.” According to what Khartoum announced.
Armed clashes erupted late last year over the course of the disputed border for more than a century. Britain individually 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 controlled, namely Al-Lakdi, Tumat Al-Lakdi, Jabal Abutiour, Jebel Tayara, East Barka Noreen, East Wad Kuli, and Umm Qazzaza Khorchin Qal’at al-Laban, and Dardouh, while the operations will continue. Military until the completion of control of the Sudanese part, in the regions of Benishangul and Abdel-Rafa.
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 renewed Sudan’s stance that he did not intend to go to war with any country, stressing that “the lands 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.”
