Ethiopia and Sudan have signed a landmark co operation agreement. Ethiopian Petroleum Corporation and Sudanese Nile Petroleum Company signed the agreement on Thursday. This agreement was signed in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital.
According to the agreement, the Ethiopian and Sudanese Petroleum Corporations will cooperate in several fields including the process of blending ethanol with gasoline (E5) and facilitating the import of gasoline through Sudan to Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Petroleum Corporation will provide lands for the Nile Petroleum Company in Addis Ababa to construct oil storage tanks. Petroleum storage tanks at Sudanese Al Jaili oil refinery have been destroyed in the ongoing fighting between Sudanese Military and Rapid Support Forces.
The two parties agreed to work together to import liquefied gas (cooking gas) and distribute it at competitive prices to Ethiopian consumers. The agreement was signed at the headquarters of the Ethiopian Petroleum Corporation by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Nile Petroleum Company, Hisham Tag El-Sir, and the Director of the Ethiopian Petroleum Corporation, Ismail Mehertu. The Nile Petroleum Company in Ethiopia has been working since 2007 on many economic and social projects in addition to providing petroleum derivatives through several stations.
This month, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited Sudan. Reportedly he shared a peace proposal with the Sudanese military chief Abdul Fattah Al Burhan to end the ongoing deadly civil war in Sudan.
These days the relations between Sudan and Ethiopia are improving. In another related regional development. Eritrea expelled the ambassador of Sudan on Wednesday. Eritrea has been a backer of Al Burhan’s government. It hosted Al Burhan and Darfur based armed groups for meetings earlier this year. Reportedly, Eritrea is training several Sudanese armed groups on its soil. It seems that growing closeness between Ethiopia and Sudan could affect Sudan-Eritrea relations.
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