Egypt’s president arrived in Sudan on Saturday, his first visit to the country since a popular uprising led to the military’s overthrow of longtime autocrat Omar Al-Bashir in 2019
He was received at Khartoum Airport by the member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Gen. Ibrahim Jabir, and a number of senior officials.
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi landed at Khartoum international airport and headed to a meeting with Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, head of the ruling Sovereign Council, at the presidential palace. There, they inspected a military guard of honor.
The visit came amid a rapprochement between the two governments. During Al-Bashir’s era, relations between Sudan and Egypt suffered from sporadic tensions.
These included the revival of a longstanding dispute over a border territory, the Halayeb Triangle, which is held by Egypt.
Khartoum and Cairo have recently called for internationalizing the dispute, to include the US, the European Union, the UN and the African Union to facilitate reaching a deal on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam.