Sudan summons Ethiopian envoy over Tigray weapons remarks

Sudan's foreign ministry has summoned Ethiopian ambassador, Yibeltal Aemeru, after he accused Khartoum of violating diplomatic norms, the state-run Sudan News Agency (Suna) has reported.

The ambassador had told local media that Ethiopian forces had shot down a plane carrying weapons for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) forces, which violated Ethiopian airspace through Sudan, the agency reported.

A director at the foreign ministry, Ambassador Fadl Abdallah Fadl, said the allegations "violates the normal diplomatic traditions".

Sudan had in the past denied Ethiopian claims that it supports the TPLF, which has been fighting the Ethiopian government in the northern Tigray region since November 2020.

The two countries are also embroiled in a dispute over the fertile al-Fashaga border region and also locked in a decade-long row over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

This article originally appeared on BBC News