In a statement issued on Friday night in New York by his spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he is "deeply worried by reports that Eritrean forces are present" in Ethiopia, and urged all parties to cease hostilities. He called on the signatories of the November 2022 Pretoria Agreement — which ended the 2020-22 Tigray war, though Eritrea was not a party to it — to return to dialogue under its framework. He said fighting in the Tigray, Afar and Amhara regions risks escalating in ways that would further destabilise the region.
This is the location nearest to where the statement originated, not to any event it describes; the location field names New York because this is a record of a diplomatic statement, not of fighting. The location names given in this record's region field reflect the conflict the statement concerns.
We treat the Secretary-General's concern as well-attested — it is the UN's own account of its own official's words — and the underlying Eritrean presence it refers to as a separate, already-assessed question.