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Halaib Triangle

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 "administrative boundary" set by the British in 1902,[1] which gave administrative responsibility for an area of land north of the line to Sudan, which was an Anglo-Egyptian client at the time. With the independence of Sudan in 1956, both Egypt and the Sudan claimed sovereignty over the area. The area has been considered to be a part of the Sudan's Red Sea State, and was included in local elections until the late 1980s. In 1994, the Egyptian military moved to take control of the area as a part of Red Sea Governorate, and Egypt has been actively investing in it since then.[2] Egypt has been recently categorical in rejecting international arbitration or even political negotiations regarding the area.[3]

Halaib Triangle
مُثَلَّث حَلَايِب
Location of the Halaib Triangle
Coordinates: 22°28′09″N 35°31′23″E / 22.46917°N 35.52306°E / 22.46917; 35.52306
CountryDe jure
Disputed area between:
 Egypt
 Sudan

De facto
Administered by:
 Egypt
GovernorateRed Sea Governorate (Egypt)
StateRed Sea State (Sudan)
Area
 • Total20,580 km2 (7,950 sq mi)
 • Disputed area20,580 km2 (7,950 sq mi)
Lowest elevation
0 m (0 ft)

The description of the area as a "triangle" is a rough approximation. The southern boundary follows latitude 22°, the northeastern consists of the Red Sea coast, and the northwestern is jagged. A smaller area south of latitude 22°, referred to as Bir Tawil, joins the Halaib Triangle at its westernmost point along the latitude line – neither Sudan nor Egypt claims Bir Tawil.[4]

Beja, Arabic and English are spoken there.

Name edit

Spelled in Arabic: مُثَلَّث حَلَايِب Muthallath Ḥalāyib, lit. "Halaib Triangle"; pronounced in Sudanese Arabic [muˈsallas ħaˈlaːjib], and in Egyptian Arabic [moˈsællæs ħæˈlæːjeb].

History edit

 
Map of the Halaib Triangle and Bir Tawil from 1912
 
The Halaib Triangle has been under Egyptian administration since mid-1990. This map is colored from the Sudanese perspective
 
Although this map of Sudan depicts the Halaib Triangle as part of the country, Sudan does not exercise its jurisdiction over the area
 
Simplified map showing Egypt's claim (yellow and green), Sudan's claim (blue and green), the Halaib Triangle (light green), Wadi Halfa Salient (dark green) and Bir Tawil (white)

On 19 January 1899, an agreement between the UK and Egypt relating to the administration of the Sudan defined "Soudan" as the "territories south of the 22nd parallel of latitude".[5] It contained a provision that would give Egypt control of the Red Sea port of Suakin, but an amendment on 10 July 1899 gave Suakin to Sudan instead.[5] On 4 November 1902, the UK drew a separate "administrative boundary", intended to reflect the actual use of the land by the tribes in the region.[5]

The 1902 border assigned administration of the territory of the Ababda tribe south of the 22-degree latitude line to Egypt, and gave to Sudan the grazing land of the Beja tribe north of the line to administer.[citation needed] The Sudan-administered territory comprised about 18,000 km2 (7000 sq. mi.), including the towns of Halaib and Abu Ramad. When Sudan became independent in 1956, Egypt regarded the latitude 22° territorial boundary of 1899 as the border between the two countries, while Sudan held to the claimed 1902 administrative boundary. As a result, both Egypt and Sudan claim sovereignty over the territory.[6][7] Conversely, the area south of the line which had been administered by Egypt, Bir Tawil, is a terra nullius, claimed by neither country.

In February 1958, two years after Sudanese independence, with Sudan planning to hold elections in the Triangle,[6] President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt sent troops into the disputed region for the referendum of the proposed unification between Egypt and Syria in the United Arab Republic,[1][8][9][10][11] but withdrew them the same month.[12] Halaib was considered part of Sudan's Red Sea State and participated in all Sudanese elections until the last Sudanese election in the late 1980s.

Although both countries continued to lay claim to the land, joint control of the area remained in effect until 1992, when Egypt objected to Sudan's granting of exploration rights for the waters off the Triangle to a Canadian oil company. Negotiations began, but the company pulled out of the deal until sovereignty was settled.[13] In July 1994, Sudan sent memoranda to the United Nations Security Council, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and the Arab League complaining about what it claimed was more than 39 military and administrative incursions by Egypt into Sudanese territory since Sudan had last filed memoranda in May 1993. In January 1995, Egypt rejected a Sudanese request for the OAU Foreign Ministers' Council to review the dispute at their meeting in Addis Ababa.[14] Then, after an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak when he arrived in Addis Ababa to attend the meeting, Egypt accused Sudan of complicity, and, among other responses, strengthened its control of the Halaib Triangle, expelling Sudanese police and other officials.[6][14]

In 1998, relations between Egypt and Sudan somewhat improved, and the countries announced their intention to work together to resolve the Halaib Triangle dispute, with increased cooperation between their security forces. Later that year, though, Sudan accused Egypt of harassing Sudanese citizens in the area, a charge which Egypt denied. Nevertheless, by March 1999, the countries were in diplomatic discussions aimed at improving relations between them.[14] During a visit to Egypt by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in December 1999, a joint communique was issued pledging to solve the Halaib dispute "in an integrational brotherly context..."[6]

In January 2000, Sudan withdrew its forces from the area, effectively ceding control of the border zone to Egypt, whose forces have occupied and administered the area since.[15]

21st century edit

In 2004, Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir claimed that despite his nation's withdrawal in 2000, and Egypt's de facto control of the Triangle, the area still rightfully belonged to Sudan, which had "never relinquished" it. "We did not make any concessions.... The proof is that we have recently renewed the complaint to the Security Council," he said, according to the Press.[16] Al-Bashir reiterated the Sudanese claim of sovereignty over Halaib in a 2010 speech in Port Sudan, saying "Halayeb is Sudanese and will always be Sudanese."[17]

The Eastern Front, a Sudanese politico-military coalition comprising the Beja Congress and Free Lions that signed a peace agreement with Khartoum, has stated that it considers Halaib to be part of Sudan due to its population being ethnically, linguistically and tribally connected to that country.[18] The head of the Eastern Front and Beja Congress, Musa Muhammad Ahmad, has declared that the issue of Halaib's sovereignty should be decided by international arbitration in a similar manner to the issue of sovereignty over Abyei between Northern and Southern Sudan.[citation needed]

In October 2009, the Electoral Commission that prepared a comprehensive plan for Sudan's general elections in April 2010 declared that Halaib was one of the Red Sea State electoral districts and that its people should exercise their constitutional rights and register in order to participate in the general elections. Voter registration did not take place in the Halaib Triangle area because the team from the Sudanese election commission was refused entry by Egyptian authorities. In December 2009, the Sudanese presidential assistant Musa Mohamed Ahmed was barred from entering the border area. Ahmed's visit was intended to "assert [Sudanese] sovereignty over the Halaib Triangle and inspect the situation of the people and provide moral and financial support to the members of the Sudanese army unit trapped inside since the [Egyptian] occupation began." His remarks were the first official recognition that Sudanese Army personnel remained inside the area of de facto Egyptian control. Ahmed also asserted that the Halaib Triangle is Sudanese and would not be forsaken "under any circumstances."[19]

The government of Egypt is taking steps to close the Egyptian-Sudanese trade center of Alshalateen and move it to the border control pass point on the 22nd parallel, which has had its facilities enlarged and its administrative manpower increased to handle the Egyptian-Sudanese land trade. By doing this, trucks bringing goods to Egypt from Sudan will not be allowed to unload their goods in Alshalateen, as in the past, but instead at the Hadarba border pass point. Wadi Halfa is another border pass point west of the Nile River at 22 degrees north.[citation needed]

In 2009, the Egyptian electricity authority was building a line to supply the city of Alshalateen with electric power from the main Egyptian grid to replace the generators being used there. This line will extend in the future to Abu Ramad and Halaib. Since May 2010 a new paved road has connected the triangle to Port Sudan.[citation needed]

It was reported in the Sudanese daily Al-Ahram Today on 22 April 2010 that Al-Taher Muhammad Hasaay, the former head of the Halaib Council and a member of the Bisharin tribe who was campaigning against the Egyptian military presence in the Halaib Triangle, died in a hospital in Cairo after having been detained by Egyptian security forces without trial for two years. A delegation of the Bisharin tribe stated to the Sudan Media Centre that seven of their members were also in detention: Muhammad Eissa Saeed, who had been in custody for six years, Ali Eissa Abu Eissa and Muhammad Saleem, detained for five years, and Hashim Othman, Muhammad Hussein AbdalHakam, Karrar Muhammad Tahir and Muhammad Tahir Muhammad Saleh each in holding for two years.[20]

In July 2010, it was reported in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm that the chiefs of three tribes in the Halaib Triangle – Ababda, el-Basharya and Beja – supported the Egyptian claims for the area, stating that they are Egyptian and not Sudanese citizens, and that they have all the rights of Egyptian citizens, including national identity cards, the right to vote in elections and to serve in the Egyptian military.[21]

On November 29, 2010, an open letter was sent to the President of Sudan by Muhammad Al-Hassan Okair (Toyota) who had been the parliamentary member of Halaib in 1995, from Halaib itself. The letter was written on behalf of the Bisharin, Hamad-Orab and Aliyaab tribes and complained of the forced inclusion of 20 villages that had been administered under indigenous civil society structures into two Egyptian electoral districts. The letter further complained of the siege of Halaib, the fact that its inhabitants live within barbed wire and that anything from Sudan is refused entry on the premise that Halaib is Egyptian and that the tribes' camels are not allowed to travel and graze for pasture in the ancestral lands of the Bisharin from Halaib to the neighbouring state of River Nile in Sudan.[22]

The Egyptian government converted the village of Halayeb to a city, and various civilian projects are under construction. Mamdouh Ali Omara was elected by the local inhabitants as representative for the Halayeb area in the Egyptian parliamentary election of November 2015.[citation needed]

In 2016, an Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a brief statement that these are Egyptian territories subject to Egyptian sovereignty, and that Egypt had no additional comment to make.[3] International arbitration requires the consent of the concerned parties, whereas Egypt has been refusing arbitration to date.[3]

A new asphalt-paved road has been built which begins south-west of Alshalateen and goes through the western portion of the triangle to the border pass of Suhin (Sohin), which is located at the 22nd parallel. In the future, this road will connect to the city of Abu Hamad in Sudan. Parts of the road can be seen on Google Earth and Bing maps.

Settlements edit

The major town in the area is Abu Ramad which lies 30 kilometres (19 mi) north west of Halaib on the Red Sea coast. Abu Ramad is the last destination of the buses that connect the area to Cairo and the other cities of Egypt such as Aswan, Marsa Alam and Qena. The only other populated place is the small village of Hadarba, south east of Halaib town on the coast.[23] Alshalateen is an Egyptian town just on the northern administrative boundary. The closest Sudanese town south of the disputed area is Osief (Marsa Osief), located 26 kilometres (16 mi) south of latitude 22, the political border line claimed by Egypt based on the 1899 agreement.

Ecology and geography edit

In the Halaib region, Afrotropical elements have their northern limits at Gebel Elba,[24] making it a unique region among Egypt's dominating Mediterranean and North African ecosystems. There is also dense cover of acacias, mangroves and other shrubs, in addition to endemic species of plants such as Biscutella elbensis.[citation needed]

The highest peaks in the area are Mount Elba (1,435 m (4,708 ft)), Mount Shellal (1,409 m (4,623 ft)), Mount Shendib (1,911 m (6,270 ft)) and Mount Shendodai (1,526 m (5,007 ft)). The mountainous area of Gebel Elba is a nature reserve declared by Egypt in a decree signed by the former prime minister Ahmed Nazif.[25]

Map edit

 
Area map pasted from four individual sheets


See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Office of Geography. Sudan - Egypt (United Arab Republic) Boundary 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine International Boundary Study #18, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, United States Department of State. (July 27, 1962).
  2. ^ "CIA World Fact Book - Egypt". Cia.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-05.
  3. ^ a b c Khalid Hassan (2017-04-10). "Land dispute continues to threaten Egypt-Sudan ties". almonitor.com. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
  4. ^ "Colonial Egypt" 1912 map
  5. ^ a b c (PDF). law.fsu.edu. Bureau of Intelligence and Research. 27 July 1962. pp. 2, 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 January 2014. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  6. ^ a b c d Dzurek, Daniel J. (2001). Parting the Red Sea: boundaries, offshore resources and transit. Vol. 3. University of Durham. International Boundaries Research Unit. p. 4. ISBN 9781897643464.
  7. ^ Rongxing Guo. Territorial disputes and resource management: a global handbook Nova Publishers, 2007. pp. 132-133.
  8. ^ "Egypt Sends Troops To Sudan, Claim To Part Of Territory, Khartoum Rejects Demand", The Times, February 18, 1958, page 8
  9. ^ "Sudan Rejects Egypt's Ultimatum, Offer To Discuss Border, Legal Rights To Be Defended "Whatever The Cost", The Times, February 19, 1958, page 8
  10. ^ "Nasser Moves South", The Times, February 19, 1958, page 9
  11. ^ "Sudan Sends Appeal To Security Council, 'Huge Infiltration' By Egyptians", The Times, February 21, 1958, page 8
  12. ^ "Egyptians Slip Away, Tension Eases On Sudan Frontier", The Times, February 26, 1958, page 7
  13. ^ "Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia Accuse Sudan, as Halaib Dispute Flares Up" Washington Report, February 1993, page 33
  14. ^ a b c Ofcansky, Thomas. "Sudan: Recent History" in Murison, Katharine, ed. (2002). Africa South of the Sahara. Europa Publications. p. 985. ISBN 1-85743-131-6.
  15. ^ "A View of Sudan from Africa: Monthly Briefing" 2012-03-24 at the Wayback Machine, The Machakos Protocol (August 2002)
  16. ^ "مستقبل حلايب بين الخرائط والدبلوماسية". Aljazeera.net. 2010-07-05. Retrieved 2017-03-05.
  17. ^ "Sudan’s Bashir reiterates sovereignty over disputed border area of Halayeb" 2019-05-14 at the Wayback Machine Sudan Tribune (1 July 2010)
  18. ^ . www.sudannewsnet.net. 18 August 2008. Archived from the original on 20 March 2009. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  19. ^ "Egypt bars Sudanese official from entering disputed border region: report" 2020-01-27 at the Wayback Machine Sudan Tribune (10 December 2009)
  20. ^ "Worry Over the Fate of 8 Halaib Detainees in Egyptian Prisons after the Death of a Fifth Detainee" Al-Ahram Today (22 April 2010)
  21. ^ "Halayeb tribes' chiefs assert belonging to Egypt, not Sudan" Al-Masry Al-Youm (3 July 2010) (translated from the Arabic edition)
  22. ^ "Letter from Occupied Halayeb to the Presidential Palace in Khartoum" 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine Sudanese Online (29 November 2010) (translated from the Arabic)
  23. ^ "1st Joint Survey Egypt/Sudan border" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-03-05.
  24. ^ . Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs: Nature Conservation Sector. Archived from the original on 2011-02-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  25. ^ Meininger, Peter; Goodman, Stephen (1996), From the verge of the Western Palearctic: birds of the Gebel Elba area, Egypt, vol. 18, Dutch Birding, pp. 285–292

External links edit

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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 administrative boundary set by the British in 1902 1 which gave administrative responsibility for an area of land north of the line to Sudan which was an Anglo Egyptian client at the time With the independence of Sudan in 1956 both Egypt and the Sudan claimed sovereignty over the area The area has been considered to be a part of the Sudan s Red Sea State and was included in local elections until the late 1980s In 1994 the Egyptian military moved to take control of the area as a part of Red Sea Governorate and Egypt has been actively investing in it since then 2 Egypt has been recently categorical in rejecting international arbitration or even political negotiations regarding the area 3 Halaib Triangle م ث ل ث ح ل اي بDisputed territoryLocation of the Halaib TriangleCoordinates 22 28 09 N 35 31 23 E 22 46917 N 35 52306 E 22 46917 35 52306CountryDe jureDisputed area between Egypt SudanDe factoAdministered by EgyptGovernorateRed Sea Governorate Egypt StateRed Sea State Sudan Area Total20 580 km2 7 950 sq mi Disputed area20 580 km2 7 950 sq mi Lowest elevation0 m 0 ft The description of the area as a triangle is a rough approximation The southern boundary follows latitude 22 the northeastern consists of the Red Sea coast and the northwestern is jagged A smaller area south of latitude 22 referred to as Bir Tawil joins the Halaib Triangle at its westernmost point along the latitude line neither Sudan nor Egypt claims Bir Tawil 4 Beja Arabic and English are spoken there Contents 1 Name 2 History 2 1 21st century 3 Settlements 4 Ecology and geography 5 Map 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksName editSee also Halaib Spelled in Arabic م ث ل ث ح ل اي ب Muthallath Ḥalayib lit Halaib Triangle pronounced in Sudanese Arabic muˈsallas ħaˈlaːjib and in Egyptian Arabic moˈsaellaes ħaeˈlaeːjeb History edit nbsp Map of the Halaib Triangle and Bir Tawil from 1912 nbsp The Halaib Triangle has been under Egyptian administration since mid 1990 This map is colored from the Sudanese perspective nbsp Although this map of Sudan depicts the Halaib Triangle as part of the country Sudan does not exercise its jurisdiction over the area nbsp Simplified map showing Egypt s claim yellow and green Sudan s claim blue and green the Halaib Triangle light green Wadi Halfa Salient dark green and Bir Tawil white On 19 January 1899 an agreement between the UK and Egypt relating to the administration of the Sudan defined Soudan as the territories south of the 22nd parallel of latitude 5 It contained a provision that would give Egypt control of the Red Sea port of Suakin but an amendment on 10 July 1899 gave Suakin to Sudan instead 5 On 4 November 1902 the UK drew a separate administrative boundary intended to reflect the actual use of the land by the tribes in the region 5 The 1902 border assigned administration of the territory of the Ababda tribe south of the 22 degree latitude line to Egypt and gave to Sudan the grazing land of the Beja tribe north of the line to administer citation needed The Sudan administered territory comprised about 18 000 km2 7000 sq mi including the towns of Halaib and Abu Ramad When Sudan became independent in 1956 Egypt regarded the latitude 22 territorial boundary of 1899 as the border between the two countries while Sudan held to the claimed 1902 administrative boundary As a result both Egypt and Sudan claim sovereignty over the territory 6 7 Conversely the area south of the line which had been administered by Egypt Bir Tawil is a terra nullius claimed by neither country In February 1958 two years after Sudanese independence with Sudan planning to hold elections in the Triangle 6 President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt sent troops into the disputed region for the referendum of the proposed unification between Egypt and Syria in the United Arab Republic 1 8 9 10 11 but withdrew them the same month 12 Halaib was considered part of Sudan s Red Sea State and participated in all Sudanese elections until the last Sudanese election in the late 1980s Although both countries continued to lay claim to the land joint control of the area remained in effect until 1992 when Egypt objected to Sudan s granting of exploration rights for the waters off the Triangle to a Canadian oil company Negotiations began but the company pulled out of the deal until sovereignty was settled 13 In July 1994 Sudan sent memoranda to the United Nations Security Council the Organisation of African Unity OAU and the Arab League complaining about what it claimed was more than 39 military and administrative incursions by Egypt into Sudanese territory since Sudan had last filed memoranda in May 1993 In January 1995 Egypt rejected a Sudanese request for the OAU Foreign Ministers Council to review the dispute at their meeting in Addis Ababa 14 Then after an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak when he arrived in Addis Ababa to attend the meeting Egypt accused Sudan of complicity and among other responses strengthened its control of the Halaib Triangle expelling Sudanese police and other officials 6 14 In 1998 relations between Egypt and Sudan somewhat improved and the countries announced their intention to work together to resolve the Halaib Triangle dispute with increased cooperation between their security forces Later that year though Sudan accused Egypt of harassing Sudanese citizens in the area a charge which Egypt denied Nevertheless by March 1999 the countries were in diplomatic discussions aimed at improving relations between them 14 During a visit to Egypt by Sudanese President Omar al Bashir in December 1999 a joint communique was issued pledging to solve the Halaib dispute in an integrational brotherly context 6 In January 2000 Sudan withdrew its forces from the area effectively ceding control of the border zone to Egypt whose forces have occupied and administered the area since 15 21st century edit In 2004 Sudanese president Omar Al Bashir claimed that despite his nation s withdrawal in 2000 and Egypt s de facto control of the Triangle the area still rightfully belonged to Sudan which had never relinquished it We did not make any concessions The proof is that we have recently renewed the complaint to the Security Council he said according to the Press 16 Al Bashir reiterated the Sudanese claim of sovereignty over Halaib in a 2010 speech in Port Sudan saying Halayeb is Sudanese and will always be Sudanese 17 The Eastern Front a Sudanese politico military coalition comprising the Beja Congress and Free Lions that signed a peace agreement with Khartoum has stated that it considers Halaib to be part of Sudan due to its population being ethnically linguistically and tribally connected to that country 18 The head of the Eastern Front and Beja Congress Musa Muhammad Ahmad has declared that the issue of Halaib s sovereignty should be decided by international arbitration in a similar manner to the issue of sovereignty over Abyei between Northern and Southern Sudan citation needed In October 2009 the Electoral Commission that prepared a comprehensive plan for Sudan s general elections in April 2010 declared that Halaib was one of the Red Sea State electoral districts and that its people should exercise their constitutional rights and register in order to participate in the general elections Voter registration did not take place in the Halaib Triangle area because the team from the Sudanese election commission was refused entry by Egyptian authorities In December 2009 the Sudanese presidential assistant Musa Mohamed Ahmed was barred from entering the border area Ahmed s visit was intended to assert Sudanese sovereignty over the Halaib Triangle and inspect the situation of the people and provide moral and financial support to the members of the Sudanese army unit trapped inside since the Egyptian occupation began His remarks were the first official recognition that Sudanese Army personnel remained inside the area of de facto Egyptian control Ahmed also asserted that the Halaib Triangle is Sudanese and would not be forsaken under any circumstances 19 The government of Egypt is taking steps to close the Egyptian Sudanese trade center of Alshalateen and move it to the border control pass point on the 22nd parallel which has had its facilities enlarged and its administrative manpower increased to handle the Egyptian Sudanese land trade By doing this trucks bringing goods to Egypt from Sudan will not be allowed to unload their goods in Alshalateen as in the past but instead at the Hadarba border pass point Wadi Halfa is another border pass point west of the Nile River at 22 degrees north citation needed In 2009 the Egyptian electricity authority was building a line to supply the city of Alshalateen with electric power from the main Egyptian grid to replace the generators being used there This line will extend in the future to Abu Ramad and Halaib Since May 2010 a new paved road has connected the triangle to Port Sudan citation needed It was reported in the Sudanese daily Al Ahram Today on 22 April 2010 that Al Taher Muhammad Hasaay the former head of the Halaib Council and a member of the Bisharin tribe who was campaigning against the Egyptian military presence in the Halaib Triangle died in a hospital in Cairo after having been detained by Egyptian security forces without trial for two years A delegation of the Bisharin tribe stated to the Sudan Media Centre that seven of their members were also in detention Muhammad Eissa Saeed who had been in custody for six years Ali Eissa Abu Eissa and Muhammad Saleem detained for five years and Hashim Othman Muhammad Hussein AbdalHakam Karrar Muhammad Tahir and Muhammad Tahir Muhammad Saleh each in holding for two years 20 In July 2010 it was reported in the Egyptian newspaper Al Masry Al Youm that the chiefs of three tribes in the Halaib Triangle Ababda el Basharya and Beja supported the Egyptian claims for the area stating that they are Egyptian and not Sudanese citizens and that they have all the rights of Egyptian citizens including national identity cards the right to vote in elections and to serve in the Egyptian military 21 On November 29 2010 an open letter was sent to the President of Sudan by Muhammad Al Hassan Okair Toyota who had been the parliamentary member of Halaib in 1995 from Halaib itself The letter was written on behalf of the Bisharin Hamad Orab and Aliyaab tribes and complained of the forced inclusion of 20 villages that had been administered under indigenous civil society structures into two Egyptian electoral districts The letter further complained of the siege of Halaib the fact that its inhabitants live within barbed wire and that anything from Sudan is refused entry on the premise that Halaib is Egyptian and that the tribes camels are not allowed to travel and graze for pasture in the ancestral lands of the Bisharin from Halaib to the neighbouring state of River Nile in Sudan 22 The Egyptian government converted the village of Halayeb to a city and various civilian projects are under construction Mamdouh Ali Omara was elected by the local inhabitants as representative for the Halayeb area in the Egyptian parliamentary election of November 2015 citation needed In 2016 an Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a brief statement that these are Egyptian territories subject to Egyptian sovereignty and that Egypt had no additional comment to make 3 International arbitration requires the consent of the concerned parties whereas Egypt has been refusing arbitration to date 3 A new asphalt paved road has been built which begins south west of Alshalateen and goes through the western portion of the triangle to the border pass of Suhin Sohin which is located at the 22nd parallel In the future this road will connect to the city of Abu Hamad in Sudan Parts of the road can be seen on Google Earth and Bing maps Settlements editThe major town in the area is Abu Ramad which lies 30 kilometres 19 mi north west of Halaib on the Red Sea coast Abu Ramad is the last destination of the buses that connect the area to Cairo and the other cities of Egypt such as Aswan Marsa Alam and Qena The only other populated place is the small village of Hadarba south east of Halaib town on the coast 23 Alshalateen is an Egyptian town just on the northern administrative boundary The closest Sudanese town south of the disputed area is Osief Marsa Osief located 26 kilometres 16 mi south of latitude 22 the political border line claimed by Egypt based on the 1899 agreement Ecology and geography editIn the Halaib region Afrotropical elements have their northern limits at Gebel Elba 24 making it a unique region among Egypt s dominating Mediterranean and North African ecosystems There is also dense cover of acacias mangroves and other shrubs in addition to endemic species of plants such as Biscutella elbensis citation needed The highest peaks in the area are Mount Elba 1 435 m 4 708 ft Mount Shellal 1 409 m 4 623 ft Mount Shendib 1 911 m 6 270 ft and Mount Shendodai 1 526 m 5 007 ft The mountainous area of Gebel Elba is a nature reserve declared by Egypt in a decree signed by the former prime minister Ahmed Nazif 25 Map edit nbsp Area map pasted from four individual sheetsSee also editAnnexation Bir Tawil an adjoining terra nullius claimed by neither Egypt nor the Sudan Egypt Sudan border Egypt Sudan relations Foreign relations of Egypt Foreign relations of Sudan Territorial dispute Wadi Halfa SalientReferences edit a b Office of Geography Sudan Egypt United Arab Republic Boundary Archived 2012 02 04 at the Wayback Machine 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Rights To Be Defended Whatever The Cost The Times February 19 1958 page 8 Nasser Moves South The Times February 19 1958 page 9 Sudan Sends Appeal To Security Council Huge Infiltration By Egyptians The Times February 21 1958 page 8 Egyptians Slip Away Tension Eases On Sudan Frontier The Times February 26 1958 page 7 Egypt Algeria and Tunisia Accuse Sudan as Halaib Dispute Flares Up Washington Report February 1993 page 33 a b c Ofcansky Thomas Sudan Recent History in Murison Katharine ed 2002 Africa South of the Sahara Europa Publications p 985 ISBN 1 85743 131 6 A View of Sudan from Africa Monthly Briefing Archived 2012 03 24 at the Wayback Machine The Machakos Protocol August 2002 مستقبل حلايب بين الخرائط والدبلوماسية Aljazeera net 2010 07 05 Retrieved 2017 03 05 Sudan s Bashir reiterates sovereignty over disputed border area of Halayeb Archived 2019 05 14 at the Wayback Machine Sudan Tribune 1 July 2010 مؤتمر البجا يجدد ثقتة في موسى ويطالب بتحكيم دولي في نزاع حلايب www sudannewsnet net 18 August 2008 Archived from the original on 20 March 2009 Retrieved 2019 05 28 Egypt bars Sudanese official from entering disputed border region report Archived 2020 01 27 at the Wayback Machine Sudan Tribune 10 December 2009 Worry Over the Fate of 8 Halaib Detainees in Egyptian Prisons after the Death of a Fifth Detainee Al Ahram Today 22 April 2010 Halayeb tribes chiefs assert belonging to Egypt not Sudan Al Masry Al Youm 3 July 2010 translated from the Arabic edition Letter from Occupied Halayeb to the Presidential Palace in Khartoum Archived 2011 07 16 at the Wayback Machine Sudanese Online 29 November 2010 translated from the Arabic 1st Joint Survey Egypt Sudan border PDF Retrieved 2017 03 05 Gebel Elba Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs Nature Conservation Sector Archived from the original on 2011 02 01 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link Meininger Peter Goodman Stephen 1996 From the verge 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