Rebels attack Sudanese army as Ethiopia and Yemen FMs meet
Sudan, Politics, 1/13/2003

The foreign ministers of Sudan, Ethiopia and Yemen on Saturday started two-day meetings on the situation in the African horn which suffers wars, according to the Sudanese foreign ministry.

Sudanese diplomatic sources said that the meetings were to deal with the efforts made to put an end to the civil war in Sudan and Somalia.

The Yemeni foreign minister Abu Baker Abdullah al-Qurabi denied that these meetings are directed against Eritrea which has challenging relations with its three neighbors.

The Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Othman Ismael said that the meeting will deal with means of attaining stability and achieving the interests of the people of the region.

For his part, Ethiopia's foreign minister Sayoum Mesven indicated the need of maintaining cooperation in order to achieve peace and establish security in the whole region.

On the other hand, the leadership of the Sudanese army announced that the rebel forces launched an attack against the Sudanese regular armed forces working in Rabkouna- Elleir road in al-Wahda province.

The official spokesman for the Sudanese army Lt. Gen. Muhammad Bashir Suleiman said in a statement that the attack was responded to. The spokesman added that the rebel forces and despite of the cease fire agreement announced between the two sides built up its forces in the area to launch aggressions once again.

Worthy mentioning that the Sudanese government has recently complained against the mechanism of executing the memorandum of understanding in Nairobi and accused the rebels of attacking government forces in several areas in the province.

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