No casualties were reported from Tuesday's onslaught but the embassy was partially damaged, Yibeltal Ayimiro Alemu, the Ethiopian ambassador to Sudan, told the BBC.

The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been fighting the army since 15 April, has blamed the military for the attack.

The Sudanese army has not commented.

It is not the first time the Ethiopian embassy in Khartoum has been attacked.

An employee of the Ethiopian embassy in Sudan told the BBC that the embassy was attacked by air strike three weeks ago. A security was wounded and windows were shattered, the staff member said.

More than 5,000 people have died in the conflict and five million others displaced, according to the UN.