Reported by / Abeer Almadawy -Cairo 

In a quick response with a comment from  the Arab League said Yesterday "Tuesday " asked the two sides of  Sudan and Ethiopia to calm down, after the announcement about  the clashes that happened between the two countries.

The League affirmed in a statement its full and firm commitment to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its member states, noting that it stands with Sudan in all the legitimate measures it takes to preserve its sovereignty over its lands and extend its authority and administration over it.

As the Arab league called for "relying on dialogue to address this situation at the earliest opportunity, based on the declared desire of the two countries to solve it by peaceful means, in a manner that respects the sovereignty of Sudan over all of its territories and restores cooperation relations and good-neighborly bridges between the two sides."

Since mid-December, the Sudanese-Ethiopian border has been witnessing security tensions and skirmishes between the two sides, as Khartoum accuses Ethiopian farmers supported by military forces of seizing land in the Sudanese "Al-Fashaqa" area on the border with Ethiopia, and having cultivated it since 1995.

On December 16, the Sudanese army announced that a force affiliated with it had been ambushed inside Sudanese territory in the "Abu Twir" area, east of Gadaref State on the border with Ethiopia, accusing "Ethiopian forces and militias" of carrying it out.