Relations between the neighbours have been strained in recent years over the disputed fertile fashaqa border region where troops from both countries have faced each other in violent clashes. Added to that were the tens of thousands of Ethiopian refugees who fled the civil war in the north to seek safety in Sudan, followed by the on-going debate over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
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