Eritrean president meets Sudan leaders over border dispute
Eritrea is seeking to defuse allegations that it has aided Ethiopia in its border dispute with Sudan,
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki met with Sudan’s interim leaders in Khartoum on Tuesday to cement ties between the two countries amid tensions over Sudan’s border dispute with Ethiopia.
Afwerki met with interim Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok after being received by head of Sudan’s interim sovereign council, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, at Sudan International Airport.
The leaders agreed to strengthen cooperation in the “political, economic, social, security and military sectors,” according to a statement by Eritrea’s Information Ministry.
Hamdok and Isaias also discussed focusing joint work on “a few, concrete projects to consolidate Eritrea-Sudan bilateral ties within the regional framework,” according to the statement.
