Chatham House published in April 2023 a paper titled "Coordinating International Responses to Ethiopia-Sudan Tensions" by Jonas Horner and Ahmed Soliman.
Published before the recent outbreak of conflict in Sudan, the paper identifies the ongoing disagreement between Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt over the operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as the primary cross-border sensitive issue. A second contentious issue concerns the contested fertile farmland of Al Fashaga along the Sudan-Ethiopia border and apparent Sudanese support for Tigrayan opponents of the Ethiopian federal government.
