Egypt a former colonial power alongside Britain in Sudan sent its intelligence chief Maj Gen Abbas Kamel to Khartoum the day after the coup...

Egypt has been quick to back Sudan announcing its full support for Sudan's right to protect the security of its territory; the head of Egypt's General Intelligence Service Gen Abbas Kamel met Gen Burhan and Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemeti' in Khartoum on 4 January to discuss Ethio-Sudan relations and GERD and a week later Lt Gen Shams el Din Kabashi a member of Sudan's Sovereign Council briefed President Abdel Fattah el Sisi in Cairo...

After the attack on Hamdok Egypt's intelligence chief Abbas Kamel met Burhan and Hemeti separately...

Abbas Kamel to Juba to meet President Salva Kiir...

GIS head General Abbas Kamel who previously served as the director of Sisi's office at the presidency and the current chief presidential aide General Mohsen Abdel Naby are also involved in the planning...

It is more likely that the move fits the long process of consolidation by which Sisi has centralised power around himself and his Chief of Staff General Abbas Kamel...

The former camp is currently closer to the president's ear having managed to get Major Ahmed Shaaban of Military Intelligence into the number two spot in the office of the presidency underneath El Sisi's chief advisor Major General Abbas Kamel...

The most recent apparent example is the alleged leaked conversation in February in which the then Defence Minister is heard talking with Major General Abbas Kamel his chief of staff funnelling gulf aid into private accounts operated by the armed forces abroad in the Gulf and outside the purview of the Central Bank of Egypt...