{"id":69181,"date":"2026-10-05T20:31:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=69181"},"modified":"2026-10-05T20:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:31:28","slug":"egypt-eritrea-somalia-and-sudan-call-for-peaceful-solutions-to-regional-conflicts-including-civil-war-in-sudan-major-fighting-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/egypt-eritrea-somalia-and-sudan-call-for-peaceful-solutions-to-regional-conflicts-including-civil-war-in-sudan-major-fighting-in-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan Call for Peaceful Solutions to Regional Conflicts including Civil War in Sudan , Major Fighting in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69183\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ethiopia-Eriteria.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ethiopia-Eriteria.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ethiopia-Eriteria-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Africa Monitoring Desk Islamabad<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan have called for political and peaceful solutions amid escalating conflicts across the region, including Sudan&#8217;s civil war and major fighting in Ethiopia.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The leaders of the four countries \u2013 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan \u2013 issued a joint declaration on Sunday following a meeting in New Alamein City in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia has accused Egypt, Eritrea and Sudan of backing the armed alliance fighting its government. Officials from all three countries have denied involvement.<br \/>\nEarlier on Sunday, el-Sisi said that cross-border challenges required &#8220;a dialogue, not confrontation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The joint declaration appeared to push back against several policies pursued by Ethiopia in recent years, highlighting widening rifts between Addis Ababa and its neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration backed Sudan&#8217;s military-led government and called for a political process led by Sudanese parties.<\/p>\n<p>Sudan has been at war since April 2023 between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Sudan and Ethiopia have traded accusations of interference in Sudan&#8217;s civil war.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration also said control of the Red Sea should remain with the coastal states, seemingly in response to landlocked Ethiopia&#8217;s pursuit of sovereign access to the sea and a naval presence.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia&#8217;s Mohamud told Al Jazeera on Saturday that Mogadishu does not object to Ethiopia securing commercial access through Somali ports, provided it is agreed with Somalia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"0L0KEHryxj\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/dawn-of-yemen-gov-armed-forces-respond-back-advance-to-take-over-sana-260-houthis-killed-secure-control-of-bab-al-mandeb\/\">DAWN OF YEMEN | Gov Armed Forces Respond Back | Advance to Take over Sana | 260 Houthis killed | Secure Control of Bab al Mandeb<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;DAWN OF YEMEN | Gov Armed Forces Respond Back | Advance to Take over Sana | 260 Houthis killed | Secure Control of Bab al Mandeb&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/dawn-of-yemen-gov-armed-forces-respond-back-advance-to-take-over-sana-260-houthis-killed-secure-control-of-bab-al-mandeb\/embed\/#?secret=LCs7Wi3wnw#?secret=0L0KEHryxj\" data-secret=\"0L0KEHryxj\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Egypt and Sudan, which have long disputed Ethiopia&#8217;s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile, warned against what they called &#8220;unilateral measures&#8221; that harm downstream states.<\/p>\n<p>The joint declaration was issued as fighting escalated in Ethiopia between federal forces and a seven-group armed alliance, including the Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front (TPLF), which fought a brutal two-year war with the government that ended with a fragile peace deal in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Government and allied forces retook the city of Mekelle on Sunday after the TPLF said it &#8220;temporarily moved out of&#8221; Tigray&#8217;s regional capital to &#8220;operate from somewhere else&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ethiopian state media reports, former Tigray interim leader Abraham Belay said on Sunday that the federal government is preparing a new temporary administration for the region and hopes to hold regional elections within months.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian officials have accused neighbouring Eritrea of directly backing the rebel alliance in Ethiopia&#8217;s civil war. Eritrea&#8217;s Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel said in a post on X on Sunday that Addis Ababa was trying to create a pretext for attacking Eritrea.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi says that Egypt rejects \u201cany external interference in the internal affairs of African countries,\u201d calling for respect for states\u2019 sovereignty and territorial integrity<\/p>\n<p>Al-Sisi\u2019s comments came as the United States called for \u201crestraint\u201d and \u201cdialogue\u201d as Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray crisis pulled in regional neighbors.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Tj6ryNgfYi\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-march-april-2026\/\">Pakistan in the World \u2013 March \/ April 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Pakistan in the World \u2013 March \/ April 2026&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-march-april-2026\/embed\/#?secret=4Q6VGu80Bk#?secret=Tj6ryNgfYi\" data-secret=\"Tj6ryNgfYi\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Monitoring Desk Islamabad Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan have called for political and peaceful solutions amid escalating conflicts across the region, including Sudan&#8217;s civil war and major fighting in Ethiopia. The leaders of the four countries \u2013 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Sudanese army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[117,141,8900,2723,1486,892,8901],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69185,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69181\/revisions\/69185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}