Thousands of Ethiopian Tigrayan fighters supporting the Sudanese army have fled Damazin as TASIS forces reached the city’s outskirts, Assayha reported on Thursday, citing unnamed military sources.
The sources said the fighters refused orders from officers at the army’s Fourth Division in Damazin and left in four-wheel-drive pickup trucks, heading towards the Ethiopian-Eritrean border.
Assayha described the fighters as mercenaries recruited by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan for the war in Blue Nile, also known as New Funj.
The outlet said groups affiliated with Ethiopia’s Tigray Liberation Front had fought alongside the Sudanese army since 2024, with armed Tigrayan contingents appearing in Gezira, Kordofan and Blue Nile.
The reported departure, the number of fighters involved and the claimed TASIS advance could not be independently verified. The report carried no response from the Sudanese army or representatives of the Tigrayan fighters.
