Having escaped from Khartoum and under fire from RSF Burhan has stepped up his own diplomatic outreach efforts in recent weeks meeting with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi...

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi has offered to send over military forces with emergency supplies and equipment to help the rescue effort...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi in Cairo on the margins of the Egypt-hosted summit on the civil war in Sudan attended by neighbouring countries and the two leaders agreed to 'initiate expedited negotiations to finalise the agreement between Egypt Ethiopia and Sudan on the filling' of the dam and its operation within four months the statement said...

While Burhan opposes IGAD's intervention and has criticised Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for calling for a no-fly zone the two generals have recognised last week's Sudan Neighbouring States Summit hosted by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi...

And on 13 July Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi is planning to host yet another regional summit to which he has invited: South Sudan's Salva Kiir; Chad's Mahamat Idriss Déby 'Kaka'; Central African Republic's Faustin-Archange Touadéra; Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed; and Eritrea's Issayas Afewerki...

President Abdel Fattah el Sisi a contemporary with Burhan at Cairo's military academy is chary of openly backing Sudan's army while Riyadh and Washington are trying to mediate...