Visit of the President of John Garang University
 

On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, Dr. Abraham Matuk, President of John Garang University in South Sudan, with a delegation from the Sudanese University, visit Faculty of Economics and Political Science, within the framework of his visit to Cairo University, and this visit comes among the successive visits between Cairo and Khartoum to emphasize the depth of the strategic cooperation between Egypt and Sudan, which included various aspects of Bilateral cooperation. Egypt and Sudan possess many economic components that allow them to increase the rate of inter-trade and increase investments between the two countries to achieve economic development for both countries. The relationship between both Egypt and Sudan is characterized by a historical depth and overlapping relations that fused the two peoples for thousands of years.

The Egyptian government is making unremitting efforts to strengthen its relationship with Sudan at all levels. On the military level, in the areas of transportation, irrigation, the extension of the electrical network to northern Sudan, in the field of health, even in the field of technology, in trade, infrastructure, finance and investment, support for Sudan’s economic reform plans, cooperation in the field of energy and mining, support for pharmaceutical industries, education and many other fields. To take advantage of the economic components between the two countries to achieve the goals of sustainable development.

A new stage in the development of strategic relations between the two brotherly countries at a very important time. The regional and international situations are surrounded by many dangers and crises extending from Libya to Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, the Gulf region, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon to Afghanistan and most of Central Asia. The African continent is also witnessing a remarkable activity of terrorist groups in The Sahel and Sahara region, Nigeria and Congo, and these challenges require us to be on a high degree of vigilance and alertness, and to extend the hands of the brothers to join hands together in the face of any dangers.