Ethiopia and Sudan officials meet after border clash
Sudan and Ethiopia have begun negotiations to demarcate their border following a clash in a disputed area last week.
Ethiopia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen is in Khartoum and is meeting Sudan’s cabinet minister, Omar Manis.
Ethiopian forces reportedly ambushed Sudanese troops along the border, killing four and wounding more than 20 others.
Sudan has since deployed troops to the Al-Fashaqa region.
In the contested area is some fertile land which Sudan claims but which has long been cultivated by Ethiopian farmers.
The area borders Ethiopia’s Tigray region where fighting last month forced more than 50,000 refugees to flee into Sudan.
