Ethiopia Accuses Sudan, Egypt of Backing Tigray Rebels as Clashes Resume

Ethiopia's army chief accused Sudan and Egypt of supporting armed groups fighting federal troops, as clashes with a Tigray-led rebel alliance resumed.

• Field Marshal Birhanu Jula said the forces fighting Ethiopia's troops are "backed, supported and supplied by Sudan, Egypt and other external powers."
• Sudan's military denied the allegations as baseless and counter-claimed that the paramilitary RSF receives support, training and supplies from within Ethiopian territory.
• Clashes resumed on 23 September between federal forces and a rebel alliance led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front, which has declared its aim of toppling Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government.
• TPLF fighters seized the town of Erebti in the Afar region, and Tigrai TV headquarters in Mekelle was hit by a drone strike.
• Federal forces advanced into southern Tigray on the sixth day of fighting and captured the town of Alamata.
• Afar's governor accused Eritrea's military of direct intervention and seizing about a third of the region, allegedly to cut Ethiopia's Red Sea and Djibouti corridor access.