Ethiopia expels Sudanese diplomats over RSF support allegations
The expulsion follows new accusations that Addis Ababa backs Sudan's paramilitary force, as the UN reports thousands displaced by fighting in Tigray and Amhara.
Ethiopia has expelled Sudanese diplomats after fresh allegations that Addis Ababa backs Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, Reuters reported.
Reuters did not say how many diplomats were ordered to leave or when the expulsion took effect.
The United Nations said renewed hostilities in northern Ethiopia have forced families who had recently returned to their homes in Tahtay Adiyabo district of northwestern Tigray to flee again. Thousands of displaced people are now in Debre Birhan in the Amhara region and in Shire in northwestern Tigray, the UN said, in a report carried by AllAfrica from the Addis Standard newspaper.
Debre Birhan already hosts people displaced from the West Shewa, East Wollega and West Wollega zones of Oromia, who face prolonged shortages of food, shelter and other assistance, the report said.
Aid delivery is being disrupted by insecurity and movement restrictions, according to the UN. In Amhara, insecurity is restricting traffic on the roads linking Gonder with Debark and with Metema. The UN did not give a breakdown of the newly displaced by location or say when the latest movements began.
Fighting broke out in late September in Tigray, Amhara and Afar, nearly four years after the November 2022 Pretoria Agreement ended a two-year war between federal forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front. The Addis Standard reported in October 2025 that 12,155 households, 62,707 people, had returned to six woredas of Tigray: Irob, Gulomekada, Zala Anbassa, Egela, Central Adiyabo and Tahtay Adiyabo.
Ahram Online reported that the clashes have driven thousands of people across the border into Kenya.
Africanews reported that the TPLF, Ethiopia's former ruling party, is losing support among former backers in Tigray after the new fighting.
BBC News reported that an Ethiopian-born American citizen admitted sharing dozens of classified documents with senior Ethiopian officials. The BBC said the man was a US contractor and that the secrets were passed on to help kill Tigray fighters.
How the reports differ
Reuters led with the expulsion of Sudanese diplomats, a diplomatic move it reported without the displacement detail the other outlets carried. AllAfrica, republishing the Addis Standard, led with the UN's figures for Debre Birhan and Shire and named the six Tigray woredas to which people had returned before fleeing again. Ahram Online led with people crossing into Kenya, a movement the other reports did not describe. Africanews framed the fighting through the TPLF's loss of support among former backers, while BBC News carried a separate case in which an Ethiopian-born contractor admitted passing classified documents to senior officials. None of the five reports gave a casualty toll for the renewed fighting.
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