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Egypt leader arrives in Khartoum for ‘historic’ visit

| April 12, 2013 | 0 Comments

KHARTOUM – Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi arrives in neighbouring Sudan on Thursday for a visit which Khartoum has termed “historic” but which an analyst said should have come sooner. The two-day trip is the Muslim Brotherhood leader’s first to Sudan, which Egypt jointly ruled with Britain until 1956. Morsi was elected last June after a [...]

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Egypt’s Morsi in Khartoum on ‘historic’ visit – GlobalPost

| April 11, 2013 | 0 Comments

Egypt‘s Morsi in Khartoum on ‘historic’ visit Follow us: <!– PRIMARY NAVIGATION –> Enlarge Egypt‘s President Mohamed Morsi arrived in neighbouring Sudan on Thursday to push economic and other ties on a visit Khartoum calls “historic” but which comes nearly a year after Morsi’s election. The two-day trip is the former Muslim Brotherhood leader’s first [...]

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Mursi in Khartoum on ‘historic’ visit

| April 11, 2013 | 0 Comments

KHARTOUM: Egypt’s President Mohammed Mursi arrived in neighbouring Sudan on Thursday to push economic and other ties on a visit Khartoum calls “historic” but which comes nearly a year after Mursi’s election.   The two-day trip is the former Muslim Brotherhood leader’s first to Sudan, which Egypt jointly ruled with Britain until 1956. He embraced [...]

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Egypt’s Morsi in Khartoum on ‘historic’ visit

| April 10, 2013 | 0 Comments

Egypt‘s Morsi in Khartoum on ‘historic’ visit Follow us: <!– PRIMARY NAVIGATION –> Enlarge Egypt‘s President Mohamed Morsi arrived in neighbouring Sudan on Thursday to push economic and other ties on a visit Khartoum calls “historic” but which comes nearly a year after Morsi’s election. The two-day trip is the former Muslim Brotherhood leader’s first [...]

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Sudan’s Bashir Grants Egypt Land in Khartoum to Build Industrial Complex

| April 6, 2013 | 0 Comments

Khartoum — The Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi arrived in Khartoum today in his first visit since his election last June in the first free polls conducted after the demise of the regime of deposed leader Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. Despite being ideologically in harmony with Sudan‘s Islamist government, Morsi appeared reluctant to visit his [...]

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Cairo, Khartoum cooperating on Nile issue: Sudanese FM

| April 6, 2013 | 0 Comments

Cooperation between Egypt and Sudan over the Nile River is moving in a positive direction, Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Karti said on Thursday in comments reported by state news agency MENA. On the sidelines of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s visit to Khartoum, Karti told reporters the visit would open new prospects for bilateral cooperation. There [...]

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Mursi visits Khartoum

| April 6, 2013 | 0 Comments

KHARTOUM: Egypt’s President Muhammad Mursi said yesterday that cooperation between the regimes in Cairo and Khartoum does not pose any threat and yet they face “enemies,” during his first visit to Sudan. “We in Egypt and Sudan are integrated, and you will find enemies for this integration,” Mursi stressed before thousands of people, including his [...]

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Ancient Kingdoms in Land of War

| April 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

For many people around the world, Sudan conjures images of war, instability, drought and poverty. All of those things exist here, often in tragic abundance. But lost in the narrative are the stories of the ancient kingdoms of Kush and Nubia that once rivaled Egypt, Greece and Rome. Lost to many, that is, but not [...]

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Bank of Khartoum’s Gulf owners bet on Sudan growth

| December 4, 2012 | 0 Comments

By Ulf Laessing KHARTOUM | Tue Nov 20, 2012 11:43am EST KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Bank of Khartoum, Sudan‘s oldest bank, plans to more than triple its capital as its Gulf investors fund an expansion in the resource-rich country, betting that peace with South Sudan will hold, its general manager said on Tuesday. Plagued by wars, [...]

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Khartoum blames Tel Aviv for arms factory fire

| October 25, 2012 | 0 Comments

SUDANESE Information Minister, Ahmed Belal Osman, has blamed Israel for arms factory fire after four military planes attacked it. “Four military planes attacked the Yarmouk plant,” he told reporters in Khartoum, adding the planes appeared to approach the site from the east. Meanwhile, Palestinians, according to Reuters yesterday fired dozens of rockets into Israel from [...]

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