/ 17 May 1999

ERITREA CHANGES ITS SUDANESE

ERITREA’S government has ordered the Sudanese opposition to evacuate Sudan’s embassy in Asmara after an unannounced visit by a security team from Khartoum last week, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The evacuation order was issued to Sudan’s National Democratic Alliance on Friday, two days after a visit to Asmara by a Sudanese technical mission, Al-Rai al-Aam daily said. The talks centered on recent cross-border attacks on Sudanese military posts north-east of Kassala and on the Kassala-Port Sudan highway in east Sudan, allegedly launched by the Sudanese opposition with backing of the Eritrean army. The press report said Eritrean officials pledged their commitment to the normalisation of relations between Sudan and Eritrea.