Sudan accuses Ethiopia of escalating tensions over disputed territory

Bloomberg

Sudan accused Ethiopian forces of entering its territory, escalating a dispute over land that straddles their border.
“Sudan strongly condemns the aggression carried out by Ethiopia, in which its forces entered into territories that legally belong to Sudan,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It described the incident as “a direct violation” of Sudanese sovereignty.
Relations between Sudan and Ethiopia have frayed since a war erupted in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region on November 4. Officials in Ethiopia’s ethnic Amhara region have pressed the government to seize land that Sudan claims ownership of based on colonial treaties. Several deadly clashes have taken place in Al Fashqa, a fertile farming area on the two nations’ border.
The dispute adds to tension between the two countries over a giant hydropower dam Ethiopia is building on the main tributary of the Nile River. Sudan and Egypt depend on the flow of the river for fresh water, and both countries want Ethiopia to agree to rules on the filling and operating of the reservoir to safeguard supplies.