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Khartoum, 7 October: Sudan informed the African Union (AU) with the details of the Eritrean aggression against it.

Sudan's Ambassador to Addis Ababa, Uthman al-Sayyid, said in a statement to SUNA that Sudan called a meeting for the AU's central mechanism for resolution of conflicts in Addis Ababa to brief it on the Eritrean aggression against the Sudanese territories and to expose the Eritrean regime, which has been harbouring the Sudanese opposition and providing them with weapons and equipment and participating with troops in the hostile actions against Sudan.

Al-Sayyid described the practices of the Eritrean regime as a stark violations to the charter of the AU, which stipulates good neighbourliness.

He explained that since its independence in 1993, Eritrea has entered into four armed conflicts with Ethiopia, Sudan, Yemen and Djibouti, a matter that confirmed aggressiveness of the Eritrean regime and its disrespect to the African and international Charters.

The ambassador explained that the Eritrean regime, in its capacity as a member of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development [IGAD], is not qualified for playing a mediation role to achieve peace in Sudan via the IGAD's Initiative in a view that it retains bellicose actions against Sudan, which deprived it from neutrality and transparency.

Eritrea attacked Sudan to mask "internal problems" - official

Al-Sayyid, furthermore, described the Eritrean regime as collapsing, what motivated its President, Isayas Afewerki, to launch hostile actions against Sudan to hide its internal problems.

In this connection, Al-Sayyid pointed out that the Eritrean regime has put many of its senior officials in jails and that the ruling people's front suffers acute splits, let alone the successive defection of Eritrean diplomats, seeking asylum in foreign countries.

He also referred to the huge numbers of Eritrean troops who surrendered themselves with their arms to the border areas in Ethiopia and Sudan for non-payment and to express opposition to the Eritrean regime [as received].

Eritrea "serving Israeli interests" in Horn of Africa

Ambassador Al-Sayyid explained that the Eritrean regime is an arm for Israel in the Horn of Africa, where the regime is ready to serve the interests of Israel in order to create tension and instability in the Red Sea area so that it would not be an Arab and Islamic lake.

Source: Suna news agency, Khartoum, in English 0455 gmt 8 Oct 02

/ý BBC Monitoring