ADDIS ABABA ( Halbeeg News) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has secured the release of more than seventy nations who were in a Sudanese jail.
Dr. Ahmed returned in Addis Ababa on Sunday evening in the same plane with the freed Ethiopians.
They were serving sentences of up to twenty years before the Government of Ethiopia negotiated for the release with Sudan’s caretaker transitional military council.
Ethiopian premier arrived in Khartoum on Friday to mediate between the Sudanese Transitional Military Council (TMC) and the opposition political parties.
He held talks with both the military and opposition groups separately.
During the talks, he expressed Ethiopia’s commitment to fostering peace in the region and underlined that a prerequisite for restoring peace in Sudan is unity.
Sudan is in a political crisis following the toppling of President Omar al-Bashir in April.
The African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council yesterday suspended the participation of Sudan from all AU activities.
The suspension is effective until the establishment of a civilian-led transitional authority.
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