KHARTOUM, SUDAN – Sudanese security agents stormed the home of an Ethiopian Woyanne diplomat in Khartoum and detained some of the attendees, a newspaper reported today.
The daily Al-Hayat newspaper published in London quoting unidentified diplomatic sources said that the incident happened this week at the home of the Ethiopian Woyanne military attaché during a party he was holding.
Security officials justified their action as saying that some of the people in the party violated the laws because of liquor that was being served.
The diplomats said the incident is the latest of series of recent setbacks in Sudanese-Ethiopian relations. They further said that Khartoum is angry at Addis Ababa Woyanne for allegedly supplying arms to the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS).
Earlier this month it was reported that an Ethiopian Woyanne military plane arrived at Juba airport with weapons to the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA).
The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the ambassadors of Ethiopia Woyanne and Kenya to protest the shipment. However the Ethiopian Woyanne government said the weapons were for a military show.
The Ethiopian Woyanne government is also reported to be dissatisfied with the close relations between Eritrea and Sudan. Moreover, some circles in Addis Ababa Woyanne accuse Khartoum of backing Ethiopian Woyanne Oromo rebels and Islamist militants in Somalia.
Last July Sudan’s army accused Ethiopian Woyanne troops of attacking a military camp inside their borders killing 19 soldiers.
FORUM | 6 Comments
I thought that they will be friends after the land give a way but now it is the opposite.
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October 24th, 2008 at 5:27 AM
Great news to true Ethiopians. Woyanie can be toppled only through armed struggle and we need Sudan badly to this end.
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October 24th, 2008 at 6:18 AM
How about the big chunck of land Woyane gave to the Sudan. Are they returning it?
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October 24th, 2008 at 7:38 AM
The poeple of sudan and eritrea are brotherly people. you can’t divide the people of sudan and eritrea. poor weyane. you start a fight with sudan, don’t worry about sudan we eritrean will arm amhara, oromo, sedama, tigray and somilia liberation front. weyame tigyan stpido that starting agitating sudan. you have huge border with sudan. and sudan will alllow us, eritrean to pentrate the tigrain army from all direction using tigrain liberation front as well. your time is up tigrain. http://www.eastafro.com. meles monkey the tigrain brain the amahara, oromo, somilia, and sedama, and sudaneese people will freedom fighters will hand you and your people tigrain from the face of the earth. http://www.hornofafrica.de, and http://www.eastafro.com.
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October 24th, 2008 at 12:55 PM
It seems that the Sudanese government is just awakening. Its so-called “ally neighbor” is not an ally at all, but a neo-colonial power’s agent, installed to power by them, to them and for them. The TPLF government in Ethiopia is nothing else, but an agent to keep the global economic system (where the rich nations get richer and richer while the others get poorer and poorer) status quo in tact by using the “divide-and- rule” tactic – colonial powers’ tool – while they exploit the nation’s resources. I am sure the Sudanese government will regret for its actions against Ethiopian Refugees to please the TPLF regime. I am certain America and its western allies do not want to see peace and stability in a nation where their interest(exploiting the people) is not kept. Sudan is a good example. Sudanese government’s decision to do business with Chinese rather than American corporations invites hostility with the west and is the source of instability and civilian conflict in Sudan. They organize, arm and train these so-called “liberation fronts” the same way they did to Ethiopia when they armed, trained, organized and brought to power the EPLF and TPLF governments of Asmara and Addis Ababa by dividing the nation into two nations.
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October 24th, 2008 at 1:20 PM
very shame todrink alcohol in islamic country or beter to send muslim diplomat for such country.
we can cover such shame if EPRDF do like that even though drinking alcohol is not shame for some Ethiopians
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October 26th, 2008 at 12:13 PM