SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Reuters – Ethiopia warns Sudan it is running out of patience over border dispute

 12/1/2021: Reuters – Ethiopia warns Sudan it is running out of patience over border dispute

 Reuters report that Ethiopia warned Sudan it was running out of patience with Sudan’s continued military build-up in the disputed border area of al-Fashqa.

“The Sudanese side seems to be pushing in so as to inflame the situation on the ground,” Ethiopian foreign ministry spokesman Dina Mufti told reporters. “Is Ethiopia going to start a war? We are saying let’s work on diplomacy.”

“How long will Ethiopia continue to resolve the issue using diplomacy? Well, there is nothing that has no limit. Everything has a limit,” he told a briefing in Addis Ababa.

Sudan’s information minister and government spokesman Faisal Mohamed Saleh said the country did not want war with Ethiopia but Sudanese forces would respond to any aggression. 

“We fear that these comments contain a hostile position towards Sudan. We ask of Ethiopia to stop attacking Sudanese territory and Sudanese farmers,” he told Reuters.