Troops move to eastern Sudanese border

Eritrean troops and Eritrean-based Sudanese opposition forces have moved into positions along the border with eastern Sudan, according to news reports on Wednesday quoting the independent Sudanese daily, ‘As-Sahafi Ad-Dawli’. The reports, which were not independently confirmed, said the Eritrean soldiers and opposition forces of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) had moved from the Eritrean interior to points just across the border from Shelalub, Awad and Haferet in Sudan’s eastern Kassala state.

The newspaper, reporting from Kassala, said the Eritrean and SPLA forces had taken up the new positions to thwart Sudanese government army plans to retake Hameshkurib town, which the SPLA occupied last year.