Sudan charges Eritrea with massing troops on its frontier

Sudan has charged Eritrea with massing troops on the frontier in preparation for an attack. In a televised statement last night, armed forces spokesman Lieutenant General Abdel Rahman Sir Al-Khatim, said information indicated an Eritrean troop build-up along the common border with the objective of launching an attack in the next few days. He said this attack should have taken place last month, but declined to say why it had failed. No independent source has confirmed this claim yet. Meanwhile, the Sudan army said it was monitoring the situation “very closely” and would hit back in case of an attack.