CAIRO: Sudan’s foreign minister says the border dispute with Egypt will remain a “potential irritant” in relations until it is resolved.
Speaking this week in an interview with the Sudanese TV channel Ashorooq, Ibrahim Al-Ghandour also says the dispute is a “thorn in the side of relations” between the two Afro-Arab nations.
Sudan says Egypt is refusing to submit the dispute to international arbitration or enter direct negotiations over the fate of the region known as the “Halayeb Triangle.”
Tension with Sudan have taken on added significance as Cairo works to secure the goodwill of Nile basin countries in the face of the threat posed to its vital share of the river’s waters by a massive dam under construction in Ethiopia, where the river’s largest tributary, the Blue Nile, originates.
Sudan says border dispute will beset ties with Egypt
Sudan says border dispute will beset ties with Egypt
Extermination of Palestinians must stop: African Union chair
ADDIS ABABA: The “extermination” of the Palestinian people must end, the chairman of the African Union Commission Mahmoud Ali Youssouf said on Saturday as he launched the organization’s 39th summit.
“In the Middle East, Palestine and the suffering of its people also challenge our consciences. The extermination of this people must stop,” said Youssouf, who was elected to head the institution a year ago.
The Gaza Strip, a small territory surrounded by Israel, Egypt, and the Mediterranean Sea, has been under a very strict Israeli siege since the start of the war triggered by Hamas’s deadly attack on October 7, 2023.
That attack resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official data.
Since then, at least 71,667 Palestinians have been killed in the small coastal territory by Israel’s retaliatory military campaign, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
He also touched on the multiple conflicts raging in Africa.
“From Sudan to the Sahel, to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in Somalia and elsewhere, our people continue to pay the heavy price of instability,” Youssouf said.
The summit brings together heads of state from the 55 member states of the African Union over two days.
This year’s theme is water sanitation.
