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Sudan to supply power to Eritrea: Media
Last Updated: Friday, May 09, 2014, 23:46
Khartoum: Sudan plans to supply neighbouring Eritrea with electricity,
official media reported on Friday, just months after Khartoum said it would
buy power from Eritrea's rival Ethiopia.
The Sudanese Electricity Transmission Company has begun work on a
45-kilometre (28-mile) line between eastern Sudan's Kassala state to
Teseney, just over the border in Eritrea, the SUNA news agency said.
The announcement came during the second day of an official visit to
Khartoum by Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki.
Issaias and his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir discussed economic
cooperation "especially with regard to the electricity power linkage", SUNA
reported earlier.
Eritrea is one of the world's poorest nations.
Sudan tries to maintain a balanced relationship between Eritrea and its
other eastern neighbour Ethiopia.
Issaias is expected to end his Sudanese trip on Saturday.
In December Sudan and Ethiopia inaugurated a cross-border electricity
link.
Bashir and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn opened a
321-kilometre line between Gedaref power station and Ethiopia's Amhara
state, SUNA reported at the time.
Sudan would initially buy 100 megawatts, it said.
Ethiopia is building the 6,000-megawatt Grand Renaissance hydro development
which will be Africa's largest when finished in 2017.
AFP
First Published: Friday, May 09, 2014, 23:46
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