Sudan, Ethiopia spy agencies agree to enhance cooperation
November 20, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese and Ethiopian spy agencies on Sunday signed a memorandum of understanding to increase intelligence sharing on counter-terrorism and crime between the two countries.
Director of the National Intelligence and Security Services of Ethiopia (NISS) Temesgen Tiruneh Dinku on Sunday concluded a two-day visit to Khartoum where he held talks with his Sudanese counterpart Ahmed Ibrahim Mufadal Director of General Intelligence Service (GIS).
In a statement seen by Sudan Tribune, GIS said the talks dealt with developing relations between the two agencies to ensure security and peace in the two countries and the region.
At the end of the visit, Mufadal and Dinku signed a memorandum of understanding between the GIS and NISS.
“The two parties agreed to cooperate in the field of joint training and sharing of experiences, enhance joint efforts in combating terrorism, organized crime and transient economic crimes, and address the issues of the nationals of the two countries,” read the statement.
The Sudanese and Ethiopian intelligence officials already met in Addis Ababa on October 14, to discuss ways to develop bilateral cooperation.
Al-Qaeda-affiliated Somali group al-Shebab attacked the Somali region of Ethiopia last July with the aim to control the area before moving deep into Ethiopia and Sudan.
In a different register, before the signing of an agreement providing to end the war in northern Ethiopia with the Tigray People’s Liberation Movement in early November, Addis Ababa accused Khartoum of backing the TPLF and allowing their presence inside refugee camps in eastern Sudan.
The Ethiopian security service has been always interested to monitor hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians who reside and work in Sudan.
The deputy head of the Transitional Sovereign Council met the visiting Ethiopian official on Sunday.
The director of Ethiopian intelligence briefed General Daglo on the latest developments in his country, since the signing of a peace agreement with the TPLF, said the Sovereign Council after the meeting.
(ST)