[AlAhram] In August 2020, Sudan signed a peace agreement with rebel groups to end 17 years of warThe Æthiopian government supplied weapons and ammunition to forces of Commander Joseph Tuka in Sudan's Blue Nile state to help them "occupy" the Sudanese Kurmuk town, Sudan’s official news agency SUNA reported on Sunday.
The Æthiopian logistics support was received by Commander Joseph Tuka, deputy head of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM—N)
...N is for North. They describe themselves as “a Sudanese national movement that seeks to change the policies of the centre in Khartoum and to build a new centre for the benefit of all Sudanese people regardless of their religion, gender or ethnicity background”, neglecting to mention that they are are at least socialist, if not outright communist. They’re based in the states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan. As of 2017 they’d split into two factions, which spent as much energy fighting each other as they did the government...
krazed killer organization, and leaders in his forces in Yabus town on 27 February, SUNA said.Yabus lies near Sudan's borders with Æthiopia and South Sudan.
"The Æthiopian government aims to use Commander Joseph Tuka to occupy the city of Kurmuk with the support of Æthiopian artillery," SUNA said.
The agency added that the Æthiopian step "aims to disperse the efforts of the Sudanese army on the eastern front," where tensions and festivities mounted between Æthiopia and Sudan over Addis Ababa's claims of ownership on the fertile al-Fashqa region.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors...
Saudi Asharq News cited an unnamed official in the SPLM-N denying that the movement has received assistance from Æthiopia.
The source added, according to the private news website, that the SPLM-N is committed to the ceasefire resolution announced by its leader, Abdel-Aziz al-Hilu.
In August 2020, Sudan’s transitional government signed a historic peace agreement with the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), a coalition of rebel groups from Darfur, the Blue Nile, and Southern Kordofan that included the SPLM-N. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
al-Hilu was absent.
The agreement ended 17 years of war.
Tensions are also increasing between the two countries over Addis Ababa's intrasigence in the negotiations over the disputed Grand Æthiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which threatens Sudan's Roseires Dam.
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