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🚨 EGYPT OUTLAWS THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AT HOME, BUT BACKS A BROTHERHOOD-LINKED ARMY IN SUDAN
Egypt has spent more than a decade dismantling the Muslim Brotherhood within its borders.
After the 2013 ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, Cairo banned the movement, seized its assets, imprisoned thousands of members and designated it a terrorist organization.
But Egypt’s policy toward Sudan tells a more complicated story.
Since Sudan’s civil war erupted in 2023, Egypt has emerged as one of the Sudanese Armed Forces’ main backers, providing political support and, according to multiple reports, intelligence, military coordination and equipment.
The Sudanese Armed Forces, however, maintain longstanding ties to the Sudanese Islamic Movement, the country’s branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Islamist-linked units, including the al-Baraa Bin Malik Brigade, have fought alongside the army. In 2026, the U.S. designated both the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood and the brigade as terrorist organizations.
Egypt publicly welcomed the U.S. designation but has continued to support the Sudanese military.
For Cairo, the calculus is strategic rather than ideological.
Sudan sits on Egypt’s southern border and plays a critical role in Nile water security, regional stability and Egypt’s efforts to counter Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Egypt views the military leadership in Khartoum as a key partner in protecting those interests, despite the Islamist factions operating within its ranks.
The result is a policy that underscores Cairo’s willingness to work with Brotherhood-linked actors abroad while maintaining a zero-tolerance stance toward the movement at home.
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