CAIRO — Sudan has summoned Egypt’s ambassador to complain about a TV series that it says portrays Egyptian terrorists living in the neighboring country. Osama bin Laden and other extremists, including many from Egypt, were based in Sudan in the mid-1990s. Cairo accused Sudan of involvement in a 1995 assassination attempt by Egyptian jihadis against Egypt’s then-president Hosni Mubarak during a trip to Ethiopia. Sudan denied the allegations, and expelled bin Laden and other militants the following year. The Foreign Ministry statement on Saturday said “no Egyptian living in Sudan has been involved in terrorist attacks.”ONTV, which aired the serial, denied it depicted Sudan, saying it does not contain “scenes or hints of the Sudanese state or Sudanese people.” It also said the series had nothing to do with the policies of the Egyptian state.

Source: Washington Post May 20, 2018 09:07 UTC