Improved relations expected between Egypt and Sudan

Abdel Aziz Shedw, deputy speaker of the Sudan's parliament, said he expected a "real breakthrough" in his country's "troubled relations with Egypt." Speaking to the private newspaper Akhbar El Youm, he said that the two countries' reconciliation was inevitable.

With some efforts the barriers between Egypt and Sudan will be removed soon, Shedw said in the August17 interview.