{"id":240266,"date":"2026-08-03T19:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-hundreds-flee-ethiopia-to-war-torn-sudan-following-new-fighting-in-tigray\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T19:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:54:19","slug":"ethiopia-hundreds-flee-ethiopia-to-war-torn-sudan-following-new-fighting-in-tigray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-hundreds-flee-ethiopia-to-war-torn-sudan-following-new-fighting-in-tigray\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Hundreds Flee Ethiopia to War-Torn Sudan Following New Fighting in Tigray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\"><em> In Ethiopia, hundreds of people have started to flee to Sudan following Saturday&#8217;s fighting, when clashes in Tigray pitted federal forces against rebels from the Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front (TPLF). Both sides accuse each other of seeking to trigger a new conflict. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Hundreds of Ethiopians from the northern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/tigray\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tigray<\/a> region have crossed into neighbouring Sudan over the past two days, fleeing fighting near the border, Sudanese security and medical sources told French news agency AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The influx&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608030664.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>In Ethiopia, hundreds of people have started to flee to Sudan following Saturday&#8217;s fighting, when clashes in Tigray pitted federal forces against rebels from the Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front (TPLF). Both sides accuse each other of seeking to trigger a new conflict. Hundreds of Ethiopians from the northern Tigray region have crossed into neighbouring Sudan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,4716,4377,5167,6529,257,254,4708,1613,4790,8143],"class_list":["post-240266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-fighting","tag-flee","tag-hundreds","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-tigray","tag-wartorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240266","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=240266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}