Al-Yurae- (Reuters) – Egypt has delivered drones to the Sudanese military, the Wall Street Journal said on Saturday, citing security officials, in a possible escalation of a conflict that is drawing more regional parties.
Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones were delivered to the Sudanese military last month, the newspaper said.
Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been locked in a power struggle since April 15, killing hundreds of people.
Spokesmen for Egypt’s foreign ministry and Sudan’s military did not respond to the newspaper’s requests for comment.
Reuters said was unable to independently verify the report.
“The circulation of this information, if proven true, provides the existence of security coordination between Egypt and Turkey after the restoration of political relations between them last May, and that the sharp differences due to the presence of Turkish military forces in Libya supported by remnants of mercenaries affiliated with them have been exceeded, and features of understanding may appear in some regional issues between them, most notably Sudan with the tendency of both Cairo and Ankara to support the army commander, General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan,” said the London-based newspaper Al-Arab.
It went to say “This type of report confirms the paradox of Egypt’s support for the Brotherhood and the remnants of the regime of former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who control the decision-making joints within the military institution led by Burhan, while Egypt suffered greatly from the Bashir regime, and was subjected to many inconveniences due to its proximity to the Brotherhood (Al-Kizan), which is classified as terrorist in Egypt”
Talk of Egypt providing Turkish drones of the type “Bayraktar” Burhan coincided with Sudanese media saying on Saturday that the Sudanese army marches destroyed four pillars of the Rapid Support Forces in the direction of the Jabal Awliya area south of Khartoum.
Al-Arab quoted security sources as saying that Cairo refused to respond to Burhan’s request at the time, because it does not want to intervene militarily in a raging conflict, in line with its principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stressed that no external party interferes in the Sudanese war, which was reflected in several statements by his Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, and confirmed by the summit of Sudan’s neighboring countries in Cairo last July, which refused to support the conflicting parties with military equipment or interfere in Sudan’s affairs to fuel its crisis.
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