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Addis Abeba \u2014 Sudan’s government has closed Ethiopia’s consulate in the eastern city of Gedaref and expelled the diplomats working there, in a reciprocal move following Ethiopia’s closure of Sudan’s consulate in Assosa and the expulsion of six Sudanese diplomatic staff, further escalating tensions between the two neighboring countries amid competing accusations of backing armed groups in each other’s territories.<\/p>\n
Two Sudanese officials, speaking to Reuters<\/a> on condition of anonymity because of…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Addis Abeba \u2014 Sudan’s government has closed Ethiopia’s consulate in the eastern city of Gedaref and expelled the diplomats working there, in a reciprocal move following Ethiopia’s closure of Sudan’s consulate in Assosa and the expulsion of six Sudanese diplomatic staff, further escalating tensions between the two neighboring countries amid competing accusations of backing armed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":249179,"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":[258,256,2765,6037,5061,3375,10110,4716,5939,9034,11317,257,34036,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-249178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assosa","tag-closes","tag-closure","tag-consulate","tag-diplomats","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopian","tag-expels","tag-gedaref","tag-news","tag-retaliation","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\/249178","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=249178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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