Ethiopia Accuses Sudan and Eritrea of Backing Tigray Forces as Sudan Rejects Outside Solutions at the UN

The Ethiopian government has accused Sudan and Eritrea of supporting armed groups fighting federal forces in northern Ethiopia, claims Khartoum rejects, RFI reported, as renewed clashes raised fears of a return to full-scale war in Tigray. The accusation draws two neighboring states into a conflict that officially ended with a 2022 agreement between the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan authorities, an agreement both sides now describe as under strain.

At the United Nations, Sudan's foreign minister told the General Assembly that no solution to his country's war can be imposed from outside, UN News reported. He spoke in place of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the de facto head of state, whose visa application Washington rejected.

Taken together, the two statements describe a Horn of Africa in which three states accuse one another of proxy involvement while the principal external mediator has limited access to one of the parties. The region borders the southern approach to the Red Sea, the route that carries a large share of Europe-Asia container traffic and Gulf energy exports.