{"id":242461,"date":"2026-08-28T08:46:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-sudanese-army-says-it-downed-drone-crossing-from-ethiopia-third-such-incident-in-recent-days\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T08:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:46:53","slug":"ethiopia-sudanese-army-says-it-downed-drone-crossing-from-ethiopia-third-such-incident-in-recent-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-sudanese-army-says-it-downed-drone-crossing-from-ethiopia-third-such-incident-in-recent-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Sudanese Army Says It Downed Drone Crossing From Ethiopia, Third Such Incident in Recent Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Sudan&#8217;s army said on Thursday it shot down a &#8220;hostile&#8221; drone that crossed into southeastern Blue Nile State from Ethiopian territory, marking the third such incident reported near the border in recent days, <a href=\"https:\/\/sudantribune.com\/article\/317947\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sudan Tribune<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Access Premium News The military said the drone was intercepted on Thursday morning north of Sarkam. It did not identify the operator, specify the drone&#8217;s point of origin or say what its intended target was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Ethiopian authorities had not immediately&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608280048.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>Addis Abeba \u2014 Sudan&#8217;s army said on Thursday it shot down a &#8220;hostile&#8221; drone that crossed into southeastern Blue Nile State from Ethiopian territory, marking the third such incident reported near the border in recent days, Sudan Tribune reported. Access Premium News The military said the drone was intercepted on Thursday morning north of Sarkam. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":242462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,4361,12277,6192,41341,23813,4716,14345,257,254,1613,7296],"class_list":["post-242461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-army","tag-crossing","tag-days","tag-downed","tag-drone","tag-ethiopia","tag-incident","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242461","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=242461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}