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Egypt Renews Complete Support to Sudan’s Security, Stability

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi receives Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Cairo. (AFP file photo)
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi receives Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Cairo. (AFP file photo)
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Egypt Renews Complete Support to Sudan’s Security, Stability

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi receives Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Cairo. (AFP file photo)
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi receives Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Cairo. (AFP file photo)

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi reiterated his country’s complete support to Sudan’s security and stability during a telephone call with Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Saturday

They agreed to continue intense coordination and consultation in the future, given their national security and the historic bilateral ties.

According to presidential spokesman Bassam Rady, the leaders discussed cooperation and regional developments.

Sisi congratulated the Sudanese government and people on their country’s Independence Day.

Burhan, for his part, hailed the deep popular and government rapprochement between Cairo and Khartoum, as well as the mutual efforts to improve joint cooperation.

He praised Cairo’s full support to preserve Sudan’s safety and stability, Rady added.

Both countries share wide cooperation relations that deepened after the ouster of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in 2019 and Burhan’s assumption of the Council’s presidency.

Sisi and Burhan last met in October 2020 when the Sudanese leader visited Cairo for talks on the implementation of joint development projects.

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UN Investigators Want to Preserve Evidence of Atrocities in Syria

A drone view shows the site of a mass grave from the rule of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, according to residents, after the ousting of al-Assad, in Najha, Syria, December 17, 2024. (Reuters)
A drone view shows the site of a mass grave from the rule of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, according to residents, after the ousting of al-Assad, in Najha, Syria, December 17, 2024. (Reuters)
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UN Investigators Want to Preserve Evidence of Atrocities in Syria

A drone view shows the site of a mass grave from the rule of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, according to residents, after the ousting of al-Assad, in Najha, Syria, December 17, 2024. (Reuters)
A drone view shows the site of a mass grave from the rule of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, according to residents, after the ousting of al-Assad, in Najha, Syria, December 17, 2024. (Reuters)

A UN-backed team investigating years of crimes in war-torn Syria says it has reached out to its new government and hopes to deploy to help gather and preserve evidence on the ground -- in hopes of bringing torturers, killers and other war criminals to justice one day.

Robert Petit, head of the international, impartial and independent mechanism on Syria, said its team has reason to believe that mass graves exist across Syria, but exhumation, DNA collection and tests for cause of death require “a lot of resources.”

He provided no further details about any such mass graves.

Petit said the government of former President Bashar Assad, who fled Syria on Dec. 8, didn’t cooperate with his team, and the change of authority offers a chance to establish the fates of “tens of thousands of people” who died and suffered under his rule.

“We are awaiting a response,” from the rebels who now control Syria, he said. “And as soon as that response is forthcoming, we will deploy.”

A “monitoring cell” on the UN-backed team has collected recent images from social media, he said, while its sources on the ground have been able to collect new evidence and testimonies in the wake of Assad’s ouster.

The mechanism was created in 2016 by the UN General Assembly to collect, preserve, consolidate and analyze evidence of “serious crimes” committed in Syria since the civil war erupted in March 2011, Petit said. A UN-backed Commission of Inquiry is doing similar work.