Ethiopia has ordered six Sudanese diplomats to leave the country this week, according to a ​senior ​Ethiopian official, deepening a rift over allegations of supporting one another's rivals. Sudan's military-backed government accuses Ethiopia of supporting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in a war that broke out in April 2023. Ethiopia accuses Sudan, along with Egypt and Eritrea, of backing rebels in its northern Tigray region.