{"id":3292,"date":"2014-06-28T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T09:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2014-06-28T16:27:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T09:27:21","slug":"egypts-sisi-and-sudans-bashir-meet-amidst-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-sisi-and-sudans-bashir-meet-amidst-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt’s Sisi and Sudan’s Bashir meet amidst controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took a brief stopover in Sudan on Friday on his way back from Equatorial Guinea where he was attending the African Union summit.<\/p>\n

Sisi spent a few hours in Sudan, conducting \u201ca short visit to hold talks with President al-Bashir\u201d, according to Sudan\u2019s official news agency SUNA.
\n\u2018Limited\u2019 protest<\/p>\n

Social media users reported that \u201ctens\u201d of people had protested in Sudan\u2019s capital Khartoum against Sisi’s visit.<\/p>\n

There were also protests at a downtown mosque in the capital, according to a witness who spoke to AFP.<\/p>\n

Some of Sisi\u2019s comments during his visit provoked fierce outcry, after reports that he had described Sudan as \u201cpart of Egypt.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took a brief stopover in Sudan on Friday on his way back from Equatorial Guinea where he was attending the African Union summit. Sisi spent a few hours in Sudan, conducting \u201ca short visit to hold talks with President al-Bashir\u201d, according to Sudan\u2019s official news agency SUNA. \u2018Limited\u2019 protest Social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338,784],"tags":[489,258,256,1769,1732,4697,415,257,4694,1768,254],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","category-sudan","tag-abdel-fattah-al-sisi","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-bashir","tag-al-sisi","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-president-al-bashir","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}