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Containing the Volatile Sudan-Ethiopia Border Dispute

In mid-December, Sudanese troops moved into al-Fashaga, an agricultural area on the frontier with Ethiopia, expelling Ethiopian farmers and building fortifications.

Fighting threatens to escalate.

  • ICG

With assistance from outside mediators, the two countries should convene talks about restoring the shared land-use agreement that prevailed beforehand.

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Ethiopia and Sudan are locked in a dangerous standoff over al-Fashaga, a swathe of fertile borderland from which Khartoum evicted thousands of Ethiopian farmers in December 2020.

Clashes between the two countries’ troops…

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