{"id":182497,"date":"2022-07-06T15:05:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T07:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=182497"},"modified":"2022-07-06T15:05:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T07:05:27","slug":"ethiopia-pm-meets-sudans-burhan-says-both-endorse-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=182497","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia PM meets Sudan’s Burhan, says both endorse ‘dialogue’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (L) and Sudan leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan meet in Nairobi, Kenya<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NAIROBI (Kenya), July 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said he met Sudan’s coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Nairobi on Tuesday and that both committed to “dialogue” to resolve any differences.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their talks follow a clash in a volatile border region last month in which Khartoum said that Ethiopian forces had captured and killed Sudanese troops — claims denied by Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We have both agreed that our two countries have plenty of collaborative elements to work on peacefully,” Abiy said in a Twitter post, accompanied by a picture of the two men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our common bonds surpass any divisions. We both made a commitment for dialogue & peaceful resolution to outstanding issues,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both leaders were in the Kenyan capital for a summit of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) regional body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudan’s ruling sovereign council said only that there had been a “closed-door meeting” between Burhan and Abiy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IGAD and the African Union had both voiced alarm last week over the escalating tensions between Ethiopia and Sudan following the incident in the disputed Al-Fashaqa border area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khartoum said the Ethiopian army had executed seven Sudanese soldiers and a civilian in a clash on June 22 in Al-Fashaqa, and announced it was recalling its ambassador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Addis Ababa claimed that Sudanese forces had crossed into Ethiopian territory and that the casualties resulted from a skirmish with a local militia, denying its soldiers were in the area at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al-Fashaqa is a fertile strip of land that has long been a source of friction between Addis Ababa and Khartoum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The region, which lies close to Ethiopia’s war-torn northern region of Tigray, has long been cultivated by Ethiopian farmers but is claimed by Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dispute has sparked sporadic clashes between the two sides, some fatal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rift also feeds into wider tensions over land and water between the neighbours, particularly stoked by Ethiopia’s mega-dam on the Blue Nile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudan and Egypt, both downstream countries, have been opposed to the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and pushed for an agreement on the filling of its reservoir and the dam’s operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tensions were heightened further after fighting erupted in Tigray in November 2020, sending tens of thousands of refugees fleeing into Sudan.\u00a0— NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (L) and Sudan leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan meet in Nairobi, Kenya NAIROBI (Kenya), July 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said he met Sudan’s coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Nairobi on Tuesday and that both committed to “dialogue” to resolve any differences. Their talks follow a clash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182500,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182497\/revisions\/182500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}