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Cairo and Al-Burhan: When the cost of an alliance becomes a question of sovereignty

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General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (pictured), head of the Sudanese armed forces, has drawn sharp criticism over his reaction to an airstrike that left dozens of artisanal gold miners dead near the Egyptian border in Jabal al-Uqaydat on Saturday, 10 October, 2026, writes Mohsin Osman. Miners and activists identified the aircraft as Egyptian Air Force jets […]
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Because al-Burhan in Sudan avoids confrontation with Egypt Sudan: The raid against miners on the border between Sudan and Egypt reopens questions about relations between the Sudanese general and Cairo. Between budgets of discordant victims, territorial claims and gold trafficking, emerges a contradiction: defending national sovereignty without questioning a [...] The article Sudan: Gold, borders and alliances comes from Il Quotidiano d'Italia.

The air raids targeting private mining sites near the Sudanese-Egyptian border re-opened a very sensitive file in the relations between Cairo and Khartoum, after Sudanese lawyers accused the Egyptian forces of being responsible for the attack that killed and wounded Sudanese miners. The issue was no longer limited to who had carried out the strikes, but rather to holding the authorities accountable for their duty ...

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EU Reporter broke the news in Brussels, Belgium on Friday, October 16, 2026.
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