KHARTOUM: Paramilitary forces attacked a Sudanese border town Tuesday, they and local authorities said, in what an army source told AFP was the latest attack launched “from inside Ethiopian territory.”
Sudan’s army-aligned government has for months accused their rivals, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, of launching attacks from Ethiopian soil.
Authorities in the town of Geissan said the RSF and their allies, a faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) led by Abdelaziz Al-Hilu, attacked the town and its surrounding farms on Tuesday morning.
“Our forces are confronting them and have inflicted heavy losses on their ranks,” the military source said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.
There was no immediate comment from Ethiopian authorities.
