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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BY EGYPTIAN STREETS Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir accuses Egypt, again, of occupying the Halayeb triangle and illegally imposing its sovereignty over it. In his interview with the Qatari outlet Al-Jazeera, Al-Bashir said Sudan rejects war against Egypt and is ready for arbitration of the United Nations security council in the case, to prove that Halayeb […]
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BY MIDDLE EAST MONITOR The rift between Sudan and Egypt is growing with the neighbouring countries continuing their disagreements over their maritime borders. In March, Sudan filed an official memorandum of objection for the first time containing baselines for its northern border, which included the Triangle within the Sudanese borders.
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Sudan and Saudi Arabia have shared something in common recently: both are at odds with Egypt. By AFP, Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir accused the Egyptian government of harbouring and backing Sudanese opposition figures fighting his troops, in remarks broadcast on Sunday. In his first such accusation against Cairo, Bashir said in an interview broadcast by […]
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By Walaa Hussein | for Al-Monitor, There are fears that the dispute over Halayeb and Shalateen, a small border region claimed by Cairo and Khartoum, will cast its shadow over Egyptian-Sudanese coordination on the negotiations over the Renaissance Dam between the two countries and Ethiopia. On April 18, state-owned channel Ethiopian TV interviewed Sudanese President […]
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By Sudan Tribune, The technical committee tasked with redrawing the border between Sudan and Ethiopia said it would complete its work on the ground during this year. In November 2014, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and Sudan’s President Omer al-Bashir instructed their foreign ministers to set up a date for resuming borders demarcation after it […]
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