Sudan’s Islamist-led government of Omar Al-Bashir who, along with more than 50 other members of his cabinet, is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He is escalating a diplomatic spat with Egypt and may even be mobilizing for war on the pretext that the North African country is a supposed threat to its national security. However, despite that the regime in Khartoum is aware of the obvious fact that Egypt is a friend rather than an enemy, it nevertheless seeks to sour relations with the Arab world’s most populous country. Although the diplomatic relations between the two neighboring countries soared this year, both have a long history of fragile diplomatic relations instigated by the dispute over Egypt’s Halayeb region and Sudan’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood, which Egypt regards as a terrorist organization. Sudan’s claim over the Halayeb triangle has long been a subject of controversy. Before the Anglo-Egyptian colonization of Sudan, no well-known demarcated borderline between Egypt and Sudan existed. At the time, both countries were under the control of the Ottoman Empire. In January 1899, the so-called Anglo-Egyptian…
