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Egypt’s intelligence chief heads to Sudan amid stalled Nile dam talks

Egypt’s head of the General Intelligence Service Maj. Gen. Abbas Kamel visited Sudan at a time when Khartoum boycotted the recent Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam negotiations.
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CAIRO — Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi dispatched the head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service Maj. Gen. Abbas Kamel to Sudan on Jan. 4 to discuss regional files and developments in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations.

During his Jan. 4 visit to Khartoum, Kamel met with head of Sudan’s Transitional Military Council Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Vice President of Sudan’s Sovereign Council Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and head of the Intelligence Service in Sudan Gen. Jamal Abdul Majeed.

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