Egyptian delegation extends condolences to South Sudan VP

5 Jan, 2005 (JUBA) — An Egyptian delegation extended condolences of the Egyptian Government to the Government of South Sudan on the death of a number of Sudanese people killed in Cairo.

Vice-President of South Sudan Government, Riek Machar, received in his office Wednesday a delegation from the Egyptian Consulate in Juba, headed by the Egyptian General Consul to Sudan Abdul-Ghafar Al-Deib.

Al-Deib said that those sorrowful events happened without the intention of the Egyptian government; He also expressed his condolences to the families of the victims.

On 30 December 2005, Egyptian police used sticks and water cannons to move up to 3,500 refugees from a squalid protest camp outside U.N. offices in an affluent Cairo district, killing at least 28. Some had been there for three months, demanding re-settlement in the West.

(ST)