President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has invited Sudan’s President Omar Al Bashir to Egypt, Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said, according to Sudan Tribune. “Relations between the two countries are marred by difference over Halayeb triangle and Sudan’s support for Ethiopia in the construction of the Renaissance Dam. Also, the conflicting trade relations between the two countries also contributed to widening the gap between the two countries,” the paper notes.

A step in the right direction? This comes as Egypt welcomed the US move to lift economic sanctions on Sudan that had been in place since 1997, in a statement from the Foreign Ministry on Saturday. Sudan has previously accused Egypt of opposing the lifting of UN sanctions on Sudan over the conflict in its western Darfur region, which Cairo denies, according to the AP.

Meanwhile, a delegation from the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs will start a four-day visit to Khartoum on Monday to set up a working group to draft a paper on Sudanese-Egyptian relations, Sudan Tribune reports.