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Clashes near Sudan-Ethiopia border leave 16 Sudanese dead
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TPLF sponsored militias are attacking Sudanese people and seizing their land


By SudanTribune

Around 16 Sudanese people have been killed in an attack by Ethiopian armed groups on the joint border, a Sudanese official said on Wednesday.

Former chief of staff of the Sudanese army and current interior minister Esmat Abdel-Rahman (SUNA)
Repeated clashes have been erupted on the Sudanese-Ethiopian border between the ’’Shifta’’ Ethiopian armed groups and the local Sudanese farmers during the recent weeks.

Sudan and Ethiopia have agreed to settle their border disputes last year, but the agreement has not been implemented.

Also the two countries agreed to deploy joint border patrols to combat the outlaws, human trafficking and the other criminals on the common borders.

Sudanese minister of interior Abdel-Rahman Wednesday said that at least 16 Sudanese farmers have been killed and other 12 people injured in clashes with some Ethiopian armed groups in the border state of El-Gadaref.

Abdel Rahman told the Sudanese parliament in a hearing session on Tuesday that the Ethiopian armed groups have attacked the Sudanese border forces and the farmers in the areas of ’’Fashaga’’, ’’Algalabat’’, ’’Giraisha’’ and Sanda in El-Gadaref.

’’At least 16 Sudanese civilians have been killed, 12 injured, 7 abducted and near to 300 cattle were raided in the past period by the repeated Ethiopian attacks,’’ said the minister .

The Sudanese lawmakers urged the minister to deploy military and police forces to protect the Sudanese territories and the farmers.

The National Assembly speaker Ibrahim Ahmed Omer has further requested the Sudanese ministry of interior to deploy more reinforcements on the border with Ethiopia and South Sudan.

The Sudanese farmers on the border areas have repeatedly claimed that the Ethiopian armed groups seek to seize their fertile lands.

The Sudanese parliamentarian member for El-Gadaref town Ismail Ahmed Musa last week accused the Ethiopian armed groups of seizing 794 Kilometres of the Sudanese farm lands in the eastern Sudan state.

Ethiopians are still controlling more than 500,000 acres of land on the Sudanese side of the border in the area of El Gedaref, according to Sudanese farmers angry that an agreement to return the agricultural land has not been honoured.

The allegations have been made in a statement issued by farmers from the El Fashaga area in Eastern Sudan who claimed that Ethiopians have not returned sections of agricultural land upon which five residential villages have been partly-constructed.





Attempts to resolve the issues have been ongoing since 2013 when a joint Sudanese-Ethiopian Committee agreed to end disputes between farmers from the two sides of the border over the ownership of agricultural land.

In a statement last week, the Governor of El Gedaref state, Mirghani Saleh claimed a small area at El Gedeima, not exceeding 15,000 acres, had been returned from Ethiopian farmers.

However, Sudanese farmers and the area’s local Member of Parliament, speaking to media outlets, contradicted the state governor’s claim. They are calling on the Sudanese government to resort to international arbitration and demarcation of the border and demanding compensation to be paid to the affected farmers.

El Fashaga land is owned by Sudan but the Sudanese government allowed Ethiopian farmers to cultivate it as part of a cooperation agreement.

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Violent disputes between the two sides resulted in the establishment of a technical committee which was tasked with redrawing the border.

However, despite the agreement made in 2013, rivalry over agricultural land and clashes at the border has continued with reports of Ethiopian gangs attacking Sudanese farmers and extorting them.

AND THOSE ARE AMHARAS WHO ARE FIGHTING WITH SUDAN, BY THE WAY. NOT OROMOS.

Waachis wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2017 7:31 pm AND THOSE ARE AMHARAS WHO ARE FIGHTING WITH SUDAN, BY THE WAY. NOT OROMOS.

tomayto, tomahto all are Ethiopians who are vulturing their neighbors and stealing their lands.

and can u prove that sudan is correct in this land claim or border dispute

Waachis wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2017 9:20 pm and can u prove that sudan is correct in this land claim or border dispute

Your country admitted and returned the land to Sudan but your land grabbers are killing Sudaneses and crossing the borders.
Sudan, Ethiopia border ‘to be finalised this year’

January 18 - 2016 KHARTOUM
El Gedaref (OCHA map of El Gedaref state)
El Gedaref (OCHA map of El Gedaref state)
The joint technical committee tasked with redrawing the border between Sudan and Ethiopia plans to complete its work on the ground this year.

The head of the Sudanese technical committee, Abdallah El Sadig, said that the process of the 725 km border demarcation is “proceeding properly”, Sudan Tribune reported on Sunday.

Sudan’s FM Ibrahim Ghandour told Aljazeera TV on Saturday that Sudan and Ethiopia are cooperating to curb the activities of Ethiopian gangs in eastern Sudan's El Gedaref state.

He stressed that El Fashaga is Sudanese territory, saying the government allowed Ethiopia farmers to cultivate its land as part of a cooperation agreement between the two countries.

In particular the ownership of land in El Fashaga has led to violent disputes between Sudanese and Ethiopian farmers. The locality covers an area of about 250 square kilometres, including 600,000 feddan (252,000 hectares) of fertile land, irrigated by the Atbara, Seteit, and Baslam rivers that flow across the state.

Violence

Over the past few years, the violence between armed farmers in El Gedaref's border areas rapidly increased, with many reports of Ethiopian gangs attacking Sudanese farmers in the border areas, extorting them, and occupying their lands.

Radio Dabanga reported in November 2015 that more than 50 villages and a million acres of farmland in the eastern localities of El Gedaref state are occupied by Ethiopian militiamen.

In July last year, large numbers of Ethiopian gunmen occupied farms in the southern El Quresha locality too.

Delayed demarcation

Politicians from the area urged Khartoum more than once this year to expedite the border demarcation in El Gedaref state.

The current borders between Sudan and Ethiopia were drawn by the British and Italian colonisers in 1908. The two governments have agreed in the past to redraw the borders, and to promote joint projects between people from both sides for the benefit of local population.

The joint Sudanese-Ethiopian High Committee announced in December 2013 that it reached an agreement to end disputes between farmers from two sides of the border over the ownership of agricultural land, particularly in El Fashaga locality.

In November 2014, the Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and President Omar Al Bashir instructed their Foreign Ministers to set up a date for resuming the border demarcation. The operation had stopped following the death of Ethiopia’s former PM, Meles Zenawi.

Ethiopia had the returned the land to Sudan
http://almariam.com/2016/01/24/no-count ... thiopians/

TPLF would be glad to give sudan amaras land bro. tplf feels closer to sudan than they do to amaras.
the same way they may give oromo some lands of others, not to make oromos happy due to justice being served, but to incite wars.
the same way they give somalis some other lands that belongs to others, not because they care for somalis, but because it's to incite conflicts.

Waachis wrote: Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:27 am TPLF would be glad to give sudan amaras land bro. tplf feels closer to sudan than they do to amaras.
the same way they may give oromo some lands of others, not to make oromos happy due to justice being served, but to incite wars.
the same way they give somalis some other lands that belongs to others, not because they care for somalis, but because it's to incite conflicts.

Your country grabbed the land in 1958 from Sudan and just returned now. BTW TPLF should return the K5 to Somalia.

Canuck2 wrote: Sat Sep 16, 2017 12:42 pm

Waachis wrote: Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:27 am TPLF would be glad to give sudan amaras land bro. tplf feels closer to sudan than they do to amaras.
the same way they may give oromo some lands of others, not to make oromos happy due to justice being served, but to incite wars.
the same way they give somalis some other lands that belongs to others, not because they care for somalis, but because it's to incite conflicts.

Your country grabbed the land in 1958 from Sudan and just returned now. BTW TPLF should return the K5 to Somalia.

can you prove it please? bring some sources to prove it?

Canuck2 wrote: Sat Sep 16, 2017 12:42 pm

Waachis wrote: Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:27 am TPLF would be glad to give sudan amaras land bro. tplf feels closer to sudan than they do to amaras.
the same way they may give oromo some lands of others, not to make oromos happy due to justice being served, but to incite wars.
the same way they give somalis some other lands that belongs to others, not because they care for somalis, but because it's to incite conflicts.

Your country grabbed the land in 1958 from Sudan and just returned now. BTW TPLF should return the K5 to Somalia.

as far kilil 5, it was never under somalia. somalis never established a centralized government for all their people.there were separate sultanates,and so on, but never 1 government for them all.

Waachis wrote: Sat Sep 16, 2017 12:51 pm

Canuck2 wrote: Sat Sep 16, 2017 12:42 pm

Waachis wrote: Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:27 am TPLF would be glad to give sudan amaras land bro. tplf feels closer to sudan than they do to amaras.
the same way they may give oromo some lands of others, not to make oromos happy due to justice being served, but to incite wars.
the same way they give somalis some other lands that belongs to others, not because they care for somalis, but because it's to incite conflicts.

Your country grabbed the land in 1958 from Sudan and just returned now. BTW TPLF should return the K5 to Somalia.

as far kilil 5, it was never under somalia. somalis never established a centralized government for all their people.there were separate sultanates,and so on, but never 1 government for them all.

Reasoning with you is done. Ethiopian will always be Ethiopian.

u didn't bring any proof to back up ur claims, yet u wanna act like i'm the one being unreasonable.
SMH.
and what does somalia even have to offer kilil 5, it hasn't even recovered yet, and is still an ethio colony.

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