{"id":228391,"date":"2026-03-24T14:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-regional-mega-war-how-renewed-conflict-in-ethiopia-could-pull-in-sudan\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:06:54","slug":"ethiopia-regional-mega-war-how-renewed-conflict-in-ethiopia-could-pull-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-regional-mega-war-how-renewed-conflict-in-ethiopia-could-pull-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Regional Mega-War? How Renewed Conflict in Ethiopia Could Pull in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Cairo \u2014 &#8220;We are in an incredibly dangerous situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The prospect of renewed war in northern Ethiopia between government forces, Tigray factions, and Eritrea risks pulling in neighbouring Sudan and merging two of the deadliest conflicts in recent history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">After fighting a war against Tigrayan forces from 2020 to 2022, the Ethiopian government may be on the verge of resuming hostilities to consolidate control over the country&#8217;s northernmost region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">It is also increasingly threatening Eritrea&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603240205.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo \u2014 &#8220;We are in an incredibly dangerous situation.&#8221; The prospect of renewed war in northern Ethiopia between government forces, Tigray factions, and Eritrea risks pulling in neighbouring Sudan and merging two of the deadliest conflicts in recent history. After fighting a war against Tigrayan forces from 2020 to 2022, the Ethiopian government may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":228392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630392:228b44769c0416495d23011da03a8505:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,2444,4716,53994,257,12611,4268,6391,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-228391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conflict","tag-ethiopia","tag-megawar","tag-news","tag-pull","tag-regional","tag-renewed","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630392:228b44769c0416495d23011da03a8505:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}