Sudan has summoned the ambassadors of Kenya and Ethiopia over what it says are illegal deliveries of weapons to the country's semi-autonomous south.
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The ship's manifest appeared to show the tanks were destined for South Sudan, though Kenya has denied this.
Sudan's Suna news agency said the foreign ministry also complained about a plane-load of weapons from Ethiopia.
The weapons had arrived in the South Sudanese capital of Juba on Friday, Suna said.
But officials from Ethiopia and the southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) said the weapons were meant for a previously planned trade fair.
Under the terms of a 2005 peace agreement that ended more than two decades of civil war, any build-up of military equipment has to be approved by a north-south Joint Defence Board.
(BBC)
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