Ethiopia: Ethiopia Tells UN Envoy Eritrea, Sudan Backing Armed Groups and Drone Attacks

What the report says

Ethiopia has accused Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and Sudan’s army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, of supporting, arming and coordinating armed groups inside Ethiopian territory, according to comments reported by Addis Standard and distributed by AllAfrica. The allegations were relayed by Getachew K. Reda, an adviser to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on the Horn of Africa, after he met on Wednesday with Guang Cong, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, in Addis Ababa.

Getachew said the discussions covered conflicts in Sudan and Somalia, as well as what he described as Eritrea’s destabilizing role in the region. He said Ethiopia had presented its position that Eritrean and Sudanese leaders were helping equip armed groups operating inside the country and were linked to repeated drone attacks. He also urged both governments to stop backing such groups and argued that dialogue, not military escalation, was needed to reduce tensions.

The report notes that the accusations have not been independently verified and that neither Asmara nor Khartoum responded in the statement cited. It also places the comments in the context of worsening regional friction, including recent diplomatic expulsions between Ethiopia and Sudan and earlier tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea. The broader significance is that security disputes in the Horn of Africa are increasingly overlapping, with each government accusing the other of helping its opponents.