A contingent of around 320 Sudanese troops has been detained in neighbouring Chad.
According to Chad’s defence minister, they fled fighting in Sudan’s western Darfur region, crossing the border on Sunday.
“They arrived in our territory, were disarmed and detained,” the AFP news agency quoted Daoud Yaya Brahim telling a press conference in Chad’s capital, N’Djamena.
They feared being killed by paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters, he said.
According to the Reuters news agency, Chad closed its border with Sudan on Saturday when fighting between the rival factions started.
Darfur, on Chad’s eastern border, is where the RSF originated.