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PortSudan, December 10(Darfur 24)A senior Sudanese Foreign Ministry official told “Darfur 24” that his ministry summoned this afternoon the acting Emirati Chargé d’Affaires Badriya Al-Shaji and handed her a memorandum deporting 15 diplomats from Sudanese territory.
The move comes in response to the United Arab Emirates’ move to expel 3 Sudanese diplomats on Saturday.
A short while ago, the official informed Darfur 24 that the Sudanese Foreign Ministry will inform Emirati Chargé d’Affairs that 15 are considered persona non grata and should leave Sudanese territory within 48 hours.
Public tension appeared in the relationship between the two countries after Sudanese Council member Yasser Al-Atta slammed UAE on the twenty-eighth of last November, describing it as a “mafia state” while addressing gunmen affiliated with the National Intelligence Service at the Wadi Saydna air base, north of the city of Omdurman. However, no official statement was issued by the UAE at the time before it responded by expelling three diplomats from its territory yesterday, Saturday.