DUBAI: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has spoken over the telephone with his US counterpart, Mike Pompeo, about the current coronavirus crisis and its economic impact on the global economy, national daily Egypt Today reported.
Pompeo also thanked Egypt’s government and EgyptAir for arranging repatriation flights for American nationals stranded abroad.
Multiple repatriation flights have been flown in recent days to return US nationals back to their country.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church has offered support to stranded Egyptians in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Minister of Immigration, Nabila Makram, said Pope Tawadros II contacted the Egyptian church in Kenya to host the stranded Egyptians.
“The church responded to the pope’s request and offered financial support to the stranded Egyptians and gave them contacts of people who can help them until the exceptional flights resume anew,” a statement by the ministry said.
Egypt, US foreign ministers discuss cooperation amid coronavirus outbreak
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Egypt, US foreign ministers discuss cooperation amid coronavirus outbreak
- Pompeo thanked Egypt’s government and EgyptAir for arranging repatriation flights for American nationals stranded abroad
- Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church has offered support to stranded Egyptians in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi
Drone strike kills 10, including 7 children, in Sudan’s El-Obeid: medical source
- An eyewitness said the strike hit a house in the center of the army-controlled capital of North Kordofan
PORT SUDAN, Sudan: A drone strike on the Sudanese city of El-Obeid killed 10 people including seven children on Monday, a medical source told AFP.
An eyewitness said the strike hit a house in the center of the army-controlled capital of North Kordofan, which the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have sought to encircle for months.
Since April 2023, Sudan has been gripped by a war between the army and the RSF, with some of the worst violence currently unfolding in Sudan’s strategic southern Kordofan region.
El-Obeid, the region’s main city, lies on a key crossroads connecting the capital Khartoum with the vast western Darfur region — where the army lost its last major position in October.
Following its victory in Darfur, the RSF has pushed through Kordofan, seeking to recapture Sudan’s central corridor and tightening its siege with its local allies around several army-held cities.
Hundreds of thousands face mass starvation across the region.
Last year, the army broke a paramilitary siege on El-Obeid, which the RSF has sought to encircle since.
Drone strikes on Sunday caused a power outage in the city but left no reports of casualties.
Last week, a coalition of armed groups allied with the army said they had retaken several towns south of El-Obeid, which according to a military source could “open up the road between El-Obeid and Dilling” — one of South Kordofan’s besieged cities.
Since it began, the war has killed tens of thousands of people and forced more than 11 million people to flee internally and across borders.
It has also created the world’s largest hunger and displacement crises, and been described as a “war of atrocities” by the United Nations.
