"A 2011 report from a United Nations Monitoring Group found that Eritrea had supported George Athor and Peter Gadet, leaders of the SPLA.

[4] In 2012, South Sudanese officials announced the country would try to mediate the border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia.

[5] Isaias Afwerki, the President of Eritrea, stressed Eritrea's support for South Sudan in 2018, stating:[6]"The people of Eritrea will stand, as ever, on the side of, and in solidarity with, the people of South Sudan until and beyond the achievement of the mission of liberation"In 2014, American human rights activist John Prendergast accused Eritrea of supporting rebels led by Riek Machar and David Yau Yau in the South Sudanese Civil War, who fought the Juba government.

[7] Eritrean President Afwerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed traveled to South Sudan in 2019 to assist the South Sudanese in securing a peace deal in the civil war.

[2] In 2022, Eritrea and Sudan were asked to help mediate the South Sudanese peace process by speaking to holdout rebel groups.