{"id":19822,"date":"2018-10-25T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19822"},"modified":"2018-10-25T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T19:23:09","slug":"sudan-signs-deal-to-lift-partial-ban-on-egyptian-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19822","title":{"rendered":"Sudan signs deal to lift partial ban on Egyptian goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1393711\/middle-east\" readability=\"45\">\n<p>\nKHARTOUM:\u00a0Sudan&#8217;s President Omar Al-Bashir on Thursday lifted a 17-month long ban on agricultural imports from Egypt, during an official visit by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to Khartoum.<br \/>&#8220;I signed today a decision cancelling the ban on imports of Egyptian products,&#8221; Bashir told reporters after meeting with Sisi.<br \/>He also said the two countries had agreed to connect their electricity networks and establish a rail link.<br \/>&#8220;We need to do more to strengthen trade relations between the two countries,&#8221; Egypt&#8217;s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said at a joint commission in Khartoum on Wednesday.<br \/>Sudan&#8217;s main imports from Egypt have historically been fruit, vegetables, fish, conserves and textiles.<br \/>The two countries signed 12 cooperation agreements covering various sectors on Thursday.<br \/>Sisi and Bashir on March 19 set out their intention to improve relations during a meeting in Cairo, after several months of tensions between the two nations.<br \/>Relations plunged in early 2017 when Sudan&#8217;s president accused Egypt of supporting rebels in conflict zones, including Darfur in western Sudan.<br \/>Sudan in May 2017 banned the import of animal and other agricultural products from Egypt and recalled its ambassador from Cairo in January 2018.<br \/>Egypt&#8217;s occupation of the Halayeb triangle, which lies near the Red Sea in a mineral-rich border region, has been another bone of contention between the two neighbours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHARTOUM:\u00a0Sudan&#8217;s President Omar Al-Bashir on Thursday lifted a 17-month long ban on agricultural imports from Egypt, during an official visit by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to Khartoum.&#8221;I signed today a decision cancelling the ban on imports of Egyptian products,&#8221; Bashir told reporters after meeting with Sisi.He also said the two countries had agreed to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}