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Sudan has denied any military coordination with Ethiopia in order to protect the Ethiopian renaissance dam. The Sudanese army spokesman Col. Alswarmy Khalid Saad on Wednesday told reporters that the joint Sudanese-Ethiopian forces were formed to monitor the common border and stop the criminal actions of human trafficking and smuggling on the border.

“We have nothing to do with the Ethiopian dam protection, it is an internal responsibility of Ethiopian government to protect its territoriesâ the spokesman stressed.

“We are keen to balance our position in this sensitive issue and for example we have joint patrols to protect our border with Egypt as well as he added.

The Ethiopian government has threatened that its troops are ready to repulse any “possible but unlikely” attack from its neighbours over the building of a controversial dam on the River Nile.

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