Eritrean president meets Sudan leaders over border dispute

Eritrea is seeking to defuse allegations that it has aided Ethiopia in its border dispute with Sudan,
Afwerki and al-Burhan
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki (L) meets with the president of the Sudanese Transitional Council, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (R), in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Sept. 14, 2019. - EBRAHIM HAMID/AFP via Getty Images
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Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki met with Sudan’s interim leaders in Khartoum on Tuesday to cement ties between the two countries amid tensions over Sudan’s border dispute with Ethiopia.

Afwerki met with interim Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok after being received by head of Sudan’s interim sovereign council, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, at Sudan International Airport.

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