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More land giveaway to Sudan?

Posted on by Elias Kifle

Sudan Ethiopia border committee to meet Monday

(ST – KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese-Ethiopian border committee is due to hold talks Monday at Police Club in Khartoum Monday.

Sudan and Ethiopia Woyanne agreed in 2004 to demarcate the 1,600 km-long border after tension over the distribution of disputed land to Ethiopian farmers after the intervention of the Ethiopian army to clear some Sudanese villages on the border.

The bilateral border talks is expected to last for seven days, said the Director of the Police Border Administration, Maj. Gen. (Police) Mohamed Ahmed Onour.

The joint committee has paid inspection visit to joint border areas.

The Sudanese official referred to agreement between the Sudanese and Ethiopian Woyanne on all issues. He said that the recent talks between the two parties were held in a cordial atmosphere and in the light of the distinguished relations between the two countries.

Onour said that the talks are aimed to reach a final agreement which is to be followed by demarcation of the joint Sudanese – Ethiopian border.

The relations between Sudan and Ethiopia were empoisoned by the issue of border demarcation in the past. The government of the ruling EPRDF is the first Ethiopian government to be willing to talk with Sudan on the border issue.

5 thoughts on “More land giveaway to Sudan?”

  3. እኔ ያልገባኝ ነገር ኢትዮጵያ ናት ወይስ ሱዳን አዲስ ሃገር ሆና የተፈጠረችው?
    ነጻ ሃገር ሆነው ስንት ዘመናት ያሳለፉ ጎረቤታም ሃገሮች በወያኔ የስልጣን ዘመን እንደአዲስ ሃገር ድንበር የማካለል ተግባር ማጧጧፋቸው ምስጢሩ ምን ይሆን?
    ድንበር ማካለል ወይስ በድንበር ማካለል ስም የመሬት ሽያጭና ግዥን ማጧጧፍ? በሱዳንም ሆነ በኬንያ ድንበር አከባቢ እየተፈጸሙ ያሉት ጉዳዮችን ላስተዋለው ሰው የኢዮጵያ መሬት ዋጋ ስደት ላይ ሆነው በሚገደሉና ታፍነው ወደ ኢትዮጵያ በሚላኩ የስደተኞች ቁጥር መጠን እየተተመነ መቸብቸብ የቀጠለ ይመስላል:
    የድምበር መካለሉ ጉዳይ እልባት ሳይሰጠው በየአመቱ የመነሳቱም ምክንያት የመሬት ሺያጭ/ስጦታው/ አስፈልጊነት ላንድ ወቅት ብቻ ሳይሆን የፖለቲካችን ሁኔታ እየተገመገመ መከናወን ያለበት በመሆኑ ይመስላል:: ጥንታዊት ሃገር ኢትዮጵያ እንደ አዲስ ሃገር በድንበር ክለላ መወጠሯን በጸጋ የተቀበለው ትውልድ! አቤት! አቤት!! አቤት!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  4. Melese is paying back the favours Sudanese sellouts did for him while he stayed in Khartoum during his rebel days. This will again buy him friendship against future struggle to oust him from power. It is a caculated move, though he is not sure it will work. “In politics there are no true friends, but only true interest”. The other could be to just engage us on matter like this and Eritrean question and elogate his misrule. He is gona give it a try any way. We shall not sit and wait. For every action, there will be an equal reaction.

    Sudanes, thanks for being open about it. Unlike the thugs in Addis who make sure every bit of is kept top secret from the Ethiopian people.

  5. Giving a precious land out of fear or friendship

    Meles may hand over some precious farming land from Gondar to Sudan on the basis of mutual friendship or fear: friendship, if Meles attacks Eritrea for a second time, Sudan because of its friendship with Meles may remain neutral to the war between Ethiopia and Eritrean. Fear, Meles fears that Sudan may indeed support Eritrea if Meles attacks Eritrea.

    With all the doubts and fears Meles may have about Sudan’s position in time of war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, we may never know what Sudan’s position will be when the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia in fact breaks out again. Meles at this time is making a gamble with Sudan even though Sudan has been a good friend of Ethiopia for a century.

    On the other hand, if Meles refuses to give up some lands to Sudan, then what will Sudan will do to Ethiopia? Perhaps Sudan will collaborate with the multitude enemies of Meles against his oppressive regime. This might be the fundamental rationale why Meles is planning to give land to Sudan; he knows that without satisfying Sudan’s appetite for a land grab, he may not start war with Eritrea. If he does, it will be risky for him because his adversaries will attack him on all directions.

    Buying a friendship by giving a piece of land for a wrong motive is a bad idea, especially for Ethiopia whose population is exploding like a mushroom from 20 million to over 76 million within just three decades while Sudan’s population is about 40 million. In reality, this is not the right time for Meles to give away Ethiopian lands to Sudan; in fact this is the time for him to buy more lands from Sudan in order to give more space for the Ethiopian people and make the Ethiopian farmers stay in their farmlands rather than move them to another area.

    Land is a precious piece of commodity, and if it were not, the previous Ethiopian kings would not have shed their priceless bloods to keep the Ethiopian land from being invaded by foreign powers. This is the time that the people of Gondar to raise up their voices against Meles’ land deal with Sudan. This land deal is not just Gondar’s problem; it should be taken seriously as the problem that concerns all the people of Ethiopia. All the people of Ethiopia should stand together against Meles’ unwise decision to give land to Sudan. History tells us that most wars were fought about protecting a mother land; the American and Mexican War was about land; the Second World War was mostly about land; the Iraq and the Iran War was about land; the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people is about land, and the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia was about a piece of land.

    Once Meles gives up this fertile land from the Gondar’s farmers to the Sudan’s, it will be hard to get it back if not impossible for the next Ethiopian generation. It will be costly to get it back; it may require a blood shed, and as a result, it will create a lasting enmity between the two friendly countries – Ethiopian and Sudan. If such things happen, then Meles will be remembered as a traitor who sold out his mother land to a foreign power.

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