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authorities. In December 2009, the Sudanese presidential assistant Musa Mohamed Ahmed was barred from entering the border area. Ahmed's visit was intended to "assert sovereignty over the Halaib Triangle and inspect the situation of the people and provide moral and financial support to the members of the Sudanese army unit trapped inside since the occupation began." His remarks were the first official recognition that Sudanese Army personnel remained inside the area of
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complaining about what it claimed was more than 39 military and administrative incursions by Egypt into Sudanese territory since Sudan had last filed memoranda in May 1993. In January 1995, Egypt rejected a Sudanese request for the OAU Foreign Ministers' Council to review the dispute at their meeting
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In 2009, the Egyptian electricity authority was building a line to supply the city of Alshalateen with electric power from the main Egyptian grid to replace the generators being used there. This line will extend in the future to Abu Ramad and Halaib. Since May 2010 a new paved road has connected the
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control of the Triangle, the area still rightfully belonged to Sudan, which had "never relinquished" it. "We did not make any concessions.... The proof is that we have recently renewed the complaint to the Security Council," he said, according to the Press. Al-Bashir reiterated the Sudanese claim of
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In 1998, relations between Egypt and Sudan somewhat improved, and the countries announced their intention to work together to resolve the Halaib Triangle dispute, with increased cooperation between their security forces. Later that year, though, Sudan accused Egypt of harassing Sudanese citizens in
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In 2016, an Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a brief statement that these are Egyptian territories subject to Egyptian sovereignty, and that Egypt had no additional comment to make. International arbitration requires the consent of the concerned parties, whereas Egypt has been refusing
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after having been detained by Egyptian security forces without trial for two years. A delegation of the Bisharin tribe stated to the Sudan Media Centre that seven of their members were also in detention: Muhammad Eissa Saeed, who had been in custody for six years, Ali Eissa Abu Eissa and Muhammad
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electoral districts and that its people should exercise their constitutional rights and register in order to participate in the general elections. Voter registration did not take place in the Halaib Triangle area because the team from the Sudanese election commission was refused entry by Egyptian
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Although both countries continued to lay claim to the land, joint control of the area remained in effect until 1992, when Egypt objected to Sudan's granting of exploration rights for the waters off the Triangle to a Canadian oil company. Negotiations began, but the company pulled out of the deal
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and move it to the border control pass point on the 22nd parallel, which has had its facilities enlarged and its administrative manpower increased to handle the Egyptian-Sudanese land trade. By doing this, trucks bringing goods to Egypt from Sudan will not be allowed to unload their goods in
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The Egyptian government converted the village of Halayeb to a city, and various civilian projects are under construction. Mamdouh Ali Omara was elected by the local inhabitants as representative for the Halayeb area in the Egyptian parliamentary election of November 2015.
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is an Egyptian town just on the northern administrative boundary. The closest Sudanese town south of the disputed area is Osief (Marsa Osief), located 26 kilometres (16 mi) south of latitude 22, the political border line claimed by Egypt based on the 1899 agreement.
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A new asphalt-paved road has been built which begins south-west of Alshalateen and goes through the western portion of the triangle to the border pass of Suhin (Sohin), which is located at the 22nd parallel. In the future, this road will connect to the city of
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On 19 January 1899, an agreement between the UK and Egypt relating to the administration of the Sudan defined "Soudan" as the "territories south of the 22nd parallel of latitude". It contained a provision that would give Egypt control of the Red Sea port of
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The description of the area as a "triangle" is a rough approximation. The southern boundary follows latitude 22°, the northeastern consists of the Red Sea coast, and the northwestern is jagged. A smaller area south of latitude 22°, referred to as
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On November 29, 2010, an open letter was sent to the President of Sudan by Muhammad Al-Hassan Okair (Toyota) who had been the parliamentary member of Halaib in 1995, from Halaib itself. The letter was written on behalf of the
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when he arrived in Addis Ababa to attend the meeting, Egypt accused Sudan of complicity, and, among other responses, strengthened its control of the Halaib Triangle, expelling Sudanese police and other officials.
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the area, a charge which Egypt denied. Nevertheless, by March 1999, the countries were in diplomatic discussions aimed at improving relations between them. During a visit to Egypt by Sudanese President
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which lies 30 kilometres (19 mi) north west of Halaib on the coast. Abu Ramad is the last destination of the buses that connect the area to Cairo and the other cities of Egypt such as
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Simplified map showing Egypt's claim (yellow and green), Sudan's claim (blue and green), the Halaib Triangle (light green), Wadi Halfa Salient (dark green) and Bir Tawil (white)
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In January 2000, Sudan withdrew its forces from the area, effectively ceding control of the border zone to Egypt, whose forces have occupied and administered the area since.
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Saleem, detained for five years, and Hashim Othman, Muhammad Hussein AbdalHakam, Karrar Muhammad Tahir and Muhammad Tahir Muhammad Saleh each in holding for two years.
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In October 2009, the Electoral Commission that prepared a comprehensive plan for Sudan's general elections in April 2010 declared that Halaib was one of the
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tribe north of the line to administer. The Sudan-administered territory comprised about 18,000 km (7000 sq. mi.), including the towns of Halaib and
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Although this map of Sudan depicts the Halaib Triangle as part of the country, Sudan does not exercise its jurisdiction over the area
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Egyptian control. Ahmed also asserted that the Halaib Triangle is Sudanese and would not be forsaken "under any circumstances."
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in December 1999, a joint communique was issued pledging to solve the Halaib dispute "in an integrational brotherly context..."
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The Halaib Triangle has been under Egyptian administration since mid-1990. This map is colored from the Sudanese perspective
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International Boundary Study #18, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, United States Department of State. (July 27, 1962).
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In February 1958, two years after Sudanese independence, with Sudan planning to hold elections in the Triangle, President
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of Egypt sent troops into the disputed region for the referendum of the proposed unification between Egypt and
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on 22 April 2010 that Al-Taher Muhammad Hasaay, the former head of the Halaib Council and a member of the
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who was campaigning against the Egyptian military presence in the Halaib Triangle, died in a hospital in
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is an area of land measuring 20,580 square kilometres (7,950 sq mi) located on the
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south of the 22-degree latitude line to Egypt, and gave to Sudan the grazing land of the
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in Addis Ababa. Then, after an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Egyptian President
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The government of Egypt is taking steps to close the Egyptian-Sudanese trade center of
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From the verge of the Western Palearctic: birds of the Gebel Elba area, Egypt
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until sovereignty was settled. In July 1994, Sudan sent memoranda to the
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over the area. The area has been considered to be a part of the Sudan's
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in Sudan. Parts of the road can be seen on Google Earth and Bing maps.
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declared by Egypt in a decree signed by the former prime minister
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claimed that despite his nation's withdrawal in 2000, and Egypt's
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The 1902 border assigned administration of the territory of the
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Territorial disputes and resource management: a global handbook
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Parting the Red Sea: boundaries, offshore resources and transit
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lies on the Red Sea coast. The major town in the area is
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that the chiefs of three tribes in the Halaib Triangle –
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In July 2010, it was reported in the Egyptian newspaper
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between the "political boundary" set in 1899 by the
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Index

Hala'ib Triangle
Disputed territory
Location of the Halaib Triangle
22°28′09″N 35°31′23″E / 22.46917°N 35.52306°E / 22.46917; 35.52306
Country
De jure
Disputed area
Egypt
Sudan
De facto
Egypt
Governorate
Red Sea Governorate
Egypt
State
Red Sea State
Sudan
Northeast African
Red Sea
Halaib
Egypt–Sudan border
Anglo-Egyptian Condominium
22nd parallel north
Egypt
Sudan
sovereignty
Red Sea State
Red Sea Governorate
international arbitration
Bir Tawil

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