Egypt refuses entry for Sudan opposition leader
The Egyptian authorities denied re-entry to Sudanese opposition leader, Sadiq al-Mahdi, as ties warm between Cairo and Khartoum.
CAIRO — Egyptian security authorities at the Cairo airport denied re-entry to Sadiq al-Mahdi, the head of the Sudanese National Umma Party and a major opponent of the Sudanese regime, upon his return July 1. Mahdi has been living in self-imposed exile in Egypt since 2014. He left Cairo to attend a meeting of the Sudanese opposition group Nidaa Sudan in Berlin on June 29.
The National Umma Party said in a statement, “Mahdi was denied entry to Egypt because he rejected a request from the Egyptian government not to attend the Berlin meetings.”
