An army-aligned Sudanese governor accused Ethiopia on Wednesday of having backed an offensive on the south, a day after Sudan’s paramilitary forces said they had seized control of the border town of Kurmuk.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been at war with Sudan’s regular army since 2023. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced around 11 million and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
Control over Sudan’s southeastern Blue Nile State, bordering both Ethiopia and South Sudan, is…