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The Halaib Triangle is an area of land measuring 20,580 square kilometres (7,950 sq mi) located on the Northeast African coast of the Red Sea.The area, which takes its name from the town of Halaib, is created by the difference in the Egypt–Sudan border between the "political boundary" set in 1899 by the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, which runs along the 22nd parallel north, and the ...
Egypt asserts the political boundary, and Sudan asserts the administrative boundary, with the result that the Halaib Triangle is claimed by both and Bir Tawil by neither. In 2014, author Alastair Bonnett described Bir Tawil as the only place on Earth that was habitable but was not claimed by any recognised government. [2]
Halaib' (Arabic: حلايب, romanized: Ḥalāyib [ħæˈlæːjeb]), is a Red Sea port and town located in the Halaib Triangle, a disputed area between Egypt and Sudan. It is about 20 km (12 mi) southeast of the ruins of the medieval port ʽAydhab.
Sudan maintains that the border diverges about 183 kilometres (114 mi) east of the salient, shifting south so as to leave Bir Tawil in Egypt, and then north-east so as to include the Halaib Triangle within Sudan.
On Monday, Egypt said it had evacuated 436 of its nationals out of about 10,000 in neighbouring Sudan. It said one of its diplomats had been wounded by gunfire, without giving details.
It is located 520 km (320 mi) south of Hurghada and is controlled as the administrative center of all Egyptian territory [citation needed] up to the border between Egypt and Sudan, including the villages of: Abu Ramad, 125 km (78 mi) to the southeast; Halaib, 165 km (103 mi) to the southeast; Ras Hadarba 200 km (120 mi) to the southeast.
Egyptian authorities said the national carrier will resume direct flights to Sudan this week following high profile talks between the Egyptian president and Sudan's military chief.
Leaders from Sudan’s seven neighboring countries agreed on Thursday in Cairo to a new Egyptian-led initiative seeking to resolve the deepening conflict in the African country. The meeting ...