Sudan says 6 soldiers killed in Ethiopia border fighting

29/11/2021 7:17

        Sudan’s armed forces said on Sunday that six of its forces were killed in fighting in the country’s border region with Ethiopia.
        
        It came a day after the military claimed that Ethiopian military and militia forces attacked the border area of al-Fashaqa, a disputed agricultural area that straddles the two countries.
        
        A report by Sudan's state news agency on Saturday said that Sudanese forces had been in the area to protect farmers harvesting crops.
        
        The fighting is the latest turbulence for Sudan, after generals deposed the country’s transitional civilian government in late October and arrested more than a hundred officials.
        
        Mass protests followed the coup, and the generals eventually reinstated Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok under military oversight amid international pressure.
        
        Sudan had been struggling with its transition to a democratic government since the military overthrow of former autocrat Omar al-Bashir in 2019, following a mass uprising against three decades of his rule.