His intelligence director General Abbas Kamel visited Port Sudan on 23 August and proposed relaunching talks in Manama...

In comments contested by his Israeli counterparts Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID) director Major General Abbas Kamel said that 10 days before the Hamas attack he had told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to prepare for 'something unusual a terrible operation'...

It has been headed since 2018 by Abbas Kamel a former general who has worked closely with Sisi since his time in military intelligence...

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...