Egypt, Sudan conduct joint military drills - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Mohamed Saied

Mohamed Saied

Nov 20, 2020

Three French-made Rafale fighter jets fly with other Egyptian air force warplanes (unseen) above Cairo, on July 21, 2015. — KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images

HAMDAYET, SUDAN - DECEMBER 6: A woman walks with a donkey as refugees from the Tigray region of Ethiopia wait to be transferred to a camp with more infrastructure at a UNHCR reception area in the east Sudanese border village of Hamdayet on December 6, 2020 in Hamdayet, Sudan. Last week, the Ethiopian government declared victory in its nearly month-long battle with the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which sent 45,000 people fleeing to Sudan and displaced thousands more within the Tigray Region. In

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Egyptian officers monitor as fellow crewmembers unload pallets containing food sent by Egypt for people displaced during ethnic clashes in the Blue Nile State, from a plane at a military base in the capital Khartoum, on August 4, 2022. - Ethnic clashes in a deadly land dispute that erupted in Sudan's Blue Nile state in July have killed 105 people and wounded 291, according to the state's health minister. Fighting broke out in the southern state which borders Ethiopia and South Sudan on July 11 between membe

Egypt, Sudan hold joint military drills as Nile dispute with Ethiopia drags on

Beatrice Farhat

Beatrice Farhat

In Beirut, reporting on regional news, culture, conflict

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly (R) and his Sudanese counterpart Abdalla Hamdok meet in Cairo, Egypt, March 11, 2021.

Egypt-Sudan hold military exercise amid crisis with Ethiopia

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