On Wednesday, the Chief-of-Staff of the Egyptian Army Osama Askar held talks in Cairo with his Sudanese counterpart Mohamed Othman Al-Hussein, during which, they discussed boosting military cooperation and joint exercises.
Leading a Sudanese delegation, Al-Hussein is currently on a visit to Egypt to attend the eighth meeting of the Egyptian-Sudanese Military Committee, Egyptian Armed Forces’ spokesman Gharib Abdel-Hafez said in a statement on Wednesday.
During their meeting, Askar and Al-Hussein agreed on enhancing the exchange of expertise between Egypt and Sudan and discussed cooperation between the two countries in various fields as well as issues of mutual concern.
Egypt and Sudan have intensified coordination and enhanced bilateral relations throughout the past decade, with the two countries exchanging high-level visits, conducting several joint military exercises, and exchanging views on key issues of mutual concern.
During the seventh meeting of the Egyptian-Sudanese Military Committee in March last year in Khartoum, former chief-of-staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces Mohamed Farid signed a military cooperation agreement with Sudan.
High-level visits between the two countries have included a visit by Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to Khartoum in March 2021 and a visit by former Sudanese foreign minister Mariam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi to Cairo in the same month.
Egypt and Sudan have also adopted similar visions on their dispute with Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile, expressing fears over their water interests due to Ethiopia’s unilateral filling and operation of the mega dam.
In February, both Egypt and Sudan condemned Ethiopia’s commencing with the GERD operations as a breach to Addis Ababa’s international commitments and the Declaration of Principles signed in 2015.
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