Trade rift with Sudan escalates: Sudan refused to grant entry to some 500 Egyptian trucks until the truck drivers receive entry visas, Al Masry Al Youm reports. Sudan had issued last month an entry visa requirement for all Egyptian males aged 18-50. According to Transportation Ministry sources, Sudan has also imposed a cap on visas issued for truck drivers to 10 per day. An average of 70 truck and buses crossed into Sudan from Egypt each day before the row.

Uruguay’s President Tabaré Vázquez is visiting Egypt at the end of May, Al Masry Al Youm reports. A delegation of Uruguayan investors will accompany the president in his trip to Egypt, Uruguay’s ambassador to Egypt told members of the Cairo Chamber of Commerce.

Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met his Eritrean counterpart Othman Saleh in Cairo yesterday to discuss bilateral cooperation and regional issues including the situation in South Sudan, Al Mal reports.

The Egyptian-Saudi Business Council is expected to meet “within days,” Abdel Hameed Abou Moussa, who heads the Egyptian side of the council, tells Al Borsa.