{"id":245956,"date":"2026-09-29T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-army-rejects-ethiopias-claims-of-backing-armed-opposition-coalition\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:00:08","slug":"sudan-army-rejects-ethiopias-claims-of-backing-armed-opposition-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-army-rejects-ethiopias-claims-of-backing-armed-opposition-coalition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Army Rejects Ethiopia&#8217;s Claims of Backing Armed Opposition Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Addis Abeba \u2014 The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has rejected accusations by Ethiopia&#8217;s military chief that Khartoum is supporting an alliance of armed and <a href=\"https:\/\/addisstandard.com\/sudan-army-rejects-ethiopias-claims-of-backing-armed-opposition-coalition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> political<\/a> groups opposed to the federal government, describing the claims as &#8220;baseless&#8221; and urging Addis Ababa to address disputes through diplomatic channels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The statement, reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/sudantribune.com\/article\/319345#google_vignette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sudan Tribune<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/sudan-rejects-claim-it-backs-ethiopian-opposition-vows-to-protect-sovereignty\/4071104\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anadolu Agency<\/a>, came after Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Chief of General Staff Field Marshal Birhanu Jula accused Sudan, Egypt and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609290034.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 The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has rejected accusations by Ethiopia&#8217;s military chief that Khartoum is supporting an alliance of armed and political groups opposed to the federal government, describing the claims as &#8220;baseless&#8221; and urging Addis Ababa to address disputes through diplomatic channels. The statement, reported by Sudan Tribune and Anadolu Agency, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":245957,"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":[258,256,9663,4361,9858,8117,5780,7144,257,5675,8440,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-245956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed","tag-army","tag-backing","tag-claims","tag-coalition","tag-ethiopias","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-rejects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"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\/245956","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=245956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}