KHARTOUM – The Sudanese military handed over 50 Ethiopian troopers crossing the border into Al-Fashaqa in Gadaref state, the Sudan Tribune discovered on Tuesday.
The Ethiopian power consists of 31 troopers belonging to the Ethiopian Nationwide Protection Power (ENDF), 13 from the Ethiopian federal police, 6 from the Ethiopian customs authority, along with one girl, navy sources instructed the Sudan Tribune.
The navy power was led by an officer with the rank of lieutenant.
He and his troopers got here from western Tigray through the town of Mai Khadra and surrendered to the Sudanese authorities on the Lugdi border crossing on the Al-Fashaqa website in Gadaref state.
On November 21, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Tigray gave the Folks’s Liberation Entrance (TPLF) forces 72 hours to give up earlier than launching a navy offensive on Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray area.
On November 28, the Ethiopian military captured Mekelle with out vital resistance amid stories that the TPLF chief had evacuated the town a number of days in the past.
The Sudanese navy sources stated the handover of the Ethiopian refugee troops happened after the conquest of Mekelle with out specifying a particular date and causes for the handover intimately.
The handover happened within the city of Metema in northwestern Ethiopia, on the border with Sudan, the supply stated, stressing that in addition they returned their weapons and tools.
Normal Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the sovereign council, was in Addis Ababa three days earlier than the intensive assault by the federal military on the opposing TPLF management, which continued to the federal authorities.
