Are Brotherhood members forming terror cells in Sudan?

Sudanese security services have arrested members of an Islamic State-affiliated terrorist cell led by an Egyptian national, while Cairo wants to extradite them as part of a broader effort to extradite members of the Muslim Brotherhood who fled to Khartoum in 2013.
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Mahmud Ezzat, acting leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood society, attends a trial session at the makeshift courtroom on the southern outskirts of Egypt's capital Cairo on Feb. 3, 2021. Egypt on February 8 sentenced Ezzat to life imprisonment after being found guilty of "terrorism", the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said. - KHALED KAMEL/AFP via Getty Images
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Sudanese security services have recently arrested members of a terrorist cell affiliated with the Islamic State (IS).

In the midst of political and security tension in Sudan, the country's intelligence services announced Sept. 28 that a raid in neighborhoods south of the capital, Khartoum, targeted a cell affiliated with IS, which has never claimed responsibility for an attack in the country.

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