[dehai-news] (ST) Sudanese security storms home of Ethiopian diplomat


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From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Thu Oct 23 2008 - 06:39:21 EDT


Sudanese security storms home of Ethiopian diplomat
 
Friday 24 October 2008 06:00.
 
October 23, 2008 (KHARTOUM) –Sudanese security agents stormed the home
of an Ethiopian diplomat in Khartoum and detained some of the attendees,
a newspaper reported today.
 
The daily Al-Hayat newspaper published in London quoting unidentified
diplomatic sources said that the incident happened this week at the home
of the Ethiopian military attaché during a party he was holding.
 
Security officials justified their action as saying that some of the
people in the party violated the laws because of liquor that was being
served.
 
The diplomats said the incident is the latest of series of recently
setbacks in Sudanese-Ethiopian relations. They further said that
Khartoum is angry at Addis Ababa for allegedly supplying arms to the
Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS).
 
Earlier this month it was reported that an Ethiopian military plane
arrived at Juba airport with weapons to the Sudan People’s Liberation
Army (SPLA).
 
The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the ambassadors of
Ethiopia to protest the shipment. However the Ethiopian government said
the weapons were for a military show.
 
The Ethiopian government is also reported to be dissatisfied with the
close relations that between Eritrea, its main rival, and Sudan.
Moreover some circles in Addis Ababa accuse Khartoum of backing
Ethiopian Oromo rebels and Islamist militants in Somalia.
 
Last July Sudan’s army accused Ethiopian troops of attacking a military
camp inside their borders killing 19 soldiers.
 
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