Government delegation visits Egypt

President Omar Bashir of Sudan this week dispatched his government’s secretary for foreign relations and former ambassador to the United States, Mahdi Ibrahim, to Egypt for talks on improving relations between the two ruling parties. Sudanese state television quoted Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Musa as saying Egypt was “keenly following” events in its southern neighbour. “He said such contacts were important given the fact that the National Congress delegation had expressed the desire to establish mutual coordination with the [governing] Egyptian National Democratic party, besides general coordination between the various other Egyptian and Sudanese organisations,” the television report said.