BY KHALIL CHARLES | MIDDLE EAST MONITOR The sacking of Gen. Taha Osman, Director of the President’s Office today and the circumstances of his detention at Khartoum International Airport present a dramatic picture of the extent to which differences over Sudan’s neutral stance in the Gulf crisis are beginning to emerge. His departure also puts […]
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Egypt and Sudan are caught up in African and Middle Eastern politics BY SIMON ALLISON | ISS AFRICA This is an especially tense time in the relationship between Sudan and Egypt, which has always been fraught. But as the geopolitical tectonics start to shift, both in Africa and the Middle East, the two neighbours are […]
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Cairo meeting of Egyptian and Sudanese foreign ministers fails to achieve tangible progress to patch up differences. BY AL JAZEERA Officials from Sudan and Egypt on Saturday held “honest” and “transparent” discussions following months of tension between the two Arab neighbours, but appeared to make little headway to patch up their differences, primarily over a […]
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