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2020-12-19 Africa Horn
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Burhan inspects Sudanese troops deployed on Ethiopian border
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] The head of the Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Thursday inspected the Sudanese troops deployed on the eastern border, following an attack by the Æthiopian forces and its Amhara Lions of Islam on Tuesday.
The Sudanese government and political groups voiced their support to the national army and condemned a coordinated attack by the Æthiopian army from the neighbouring Amarah region.
The attack, intervened as Addis Ababa sought Sudan’s neutrality in the conflict with the recalcitrant TPLF of the Tigray Region and after the deployment of Sudanese troops along the border.
In a short statement released on Thursday, the Sudanese army stated that al-Burhan was in Gadaref to inspect the Eastern Command and the troops deployed along the border with Æthiopia.
He was accompanied by the Chief of Staff Mohammed Osman al-Hussein and senior military commanders.
In a short extract of his speech to the troops released after the visit, al-Burhan who spent most of his carrier in the border army enumerated all border towns with the neighbouring countries and vowed to defend it.
An army officer and three soldiers were killed, in addition to 27 soldiers injured during the attack on Tuesday evening the Æthiopian army.
Sudanese soldiers who were part of the border patrol attacked by the Æthiopian army in Abu Teyyour told the Sudan Tribune on Thursday that the ambush was carried out by the Æthiopian army.
The Sudanese army force "came under artillery shelling from the Æthiopian troops that sneaked into the Jebel al-Teyyour area at a depth of 7 km in the Sudanese territory," a soldier told the Sudan Tribune.
He further said they were surprised by the heavy shelling and attacks from several sides.
"The attack tactic suggests that it was the work of organized forces and not just militias," he further said.
Other military told the Sudan Tribune that assailants belong to the Amhara ethnic group intending to stop the deployment of the Sudanese army in the areas cultivated inside the Sudanese territory by Æthiopian farmers.
The Amhara Region army and militias are heavily involved in the war against the TPLF of Tigray Region.
The former President Omer al-Bashir had ordered to tolerate the presence of Æthiopian farmers in the Sudanese border area. However,
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al-Burhan seemed determined to change the situation, after the regime change in Khartoum. 
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