{"id":62301,"date":"2026-11-05T15:56:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=62301"},"modified":"2026-11-06T03:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T00:57:43","slug":"sudan-expels-ethiopian-diplomats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/sudan-expels-ethiopian-diplomats\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Expels Ethiopian Diplomats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relations between Sudan and Ethiopia have entered a phase of reciprocal diplomatic escalation, reflecting a notable rise in tensions between the two countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Friday, Khartoum submitted a complaint to the United Nations Security Council, followed by another to the African Union Peace and Security Council, accusing Ethiopia of providing logistical support to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allowing them to use launch platforms on Ethiopian territory to deploy drones that targeted electricity and fuel facilities in several Sudanese states.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted two Sudanese officials on Wednesday as saying that Khartoum had decided to expel Ethiopian diplomats in response to Addis Ababa&#8217;s decision to declare six employees of the Sudanese consulate in the city of Asosa personae non gratae and give them 48 hours to leave Ethiopian territory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Sudanese government official, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said that Ethiopia had declared the Sudanese consulate employees in Asosa, located in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, personae non gratae on November 2 and given them 48 hours to leave the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Associated Press (AP) quoted Ethiopian and Sudanese officials as saying that Addis Ababa had also decided to close the Sudanese consulate in Asosa, located in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region near the border with Sudan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Sudanese government official described Ethiopia&#8217;s move as &#8220;escalatory,&#8221; saying it came after &#8220;Sudan documented Ethiopia&#8217;s support for the rebellion of the RSF militia by allowing it to use Ethiopian territory to launch attacks against Sudanese cities and civilian facilities.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to a report by the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, 187 one-way attack drones were launched from Ethiopian territory, resulting in the deaths and injuries of nearly 500 civilians.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relations between Sudan and Ethiopia have entered a phase of reciprocal diplomatic escalation, reflecting a notable rise in tensions between the two countries. On Friday, Khartoum submitted a complaint to the United Nations Security Council, followed by another to the African Union Peace and Security Council, accusing Ethiopia of providing logistical support to the Rapid &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62303,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62301\/revisions\/62303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}