Hala'ib triangle

Hala'ib Triangle (another spelling - Triangle Halayeb, ar: مثلث حلايب [mosællæs ħælæːjeb]) - Disputed territory between Egypt and Sudan, covering an area of ​​20 580 km², located on the African Red Sea coast. The main city is Hala'ib. Another area of ​​dispute between Egypt and the Sudan is Bir Tawil.

Sovereignty in this area has never been established satisfactorily. Both Egypt and Sudan claim the area. In 1899 the United Kingdom, having a great influence in this area, set out the Egyptian-Sudan border along the 22nd parallel. After regaining independence, both countries agreed that such a division would be detrimental to Bedouins from the Bishari tribe, whose terrains lay beyond the border, and that Egypt had transferred some of these territories to the Sudanese administration.

In 1958, Gamal Abdel Naser sent Egyptian troops to the disputed region, but withdrew it shortly afterwards. Although both countries claim the area, it remained under Sudan's control over the dispute in 1992, when Egypt objected to the Sudanese grant of the right to search for oil reserves by the Canadian oil company. It was then that Egypt sent its army into this region. In January 2000, Sudan withdrew its forces from that zone, while the Egyptian army was stationed in the Hala'ib triangle.

In 2004, the Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir said that despite his military withdrawal and actual Egyptian control in the Hala'ib Triangle, he should still belong to Sudan. The president stated that Sudan had never resigned from the city of Hala'ib and its surroundings. The newly discovered oil reserves in this territory can only increase the desire of both countries to apply for this area. Fighting on the Sudanese Eastern Front, the political-military groups of the Bedouin and Free Libyan Congress, which signed a peace agreement with the government in Khartoum, said they recognize the Hala'ib Triangle as a sovereign part of Sudan, Hala'ib is inhabited by ethnic, linguistic and tribal people in Sudan.

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