A meeting of the Sudanese and Egyptian presidents will be perfunctory

Recent events have brought tension back into the relations between Egypt and Sudan, so Khartoum has increased its statements regarding a summit meeting between Presidents Omar Al-Bashir and Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. The latest announcement came from the Sudanese foreign minister while discussing the preparations being made for the summit. Sudan’s ambassador to Cairo also mentioned a summit meeting in January in Cairo. The Egyptians, meanwhile, leaked a story to the media in which “diplomatic sources” denied the minister’s statement about the summit and claimed that the information was false.
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