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Sudan hosts East Africa Standby Force military exercises

(26 Nov 2017) Sudan marked the opening of a week of military exercises with the East Africa Standby Force (EASF) on Sunday. EASF members include Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda. The exercises were expected to be the largest ever to have taken place between the neighbouring countries. Its leaders have described the military coalition as a rapid-deployment force for peace enforcement. The exercises were taking place in the scarcely populated military zone of Gebeit, in the north east of Sudan near the Red Sea, due south from its disputed border with Egypt. Tensions between Egypt and upstream Nile basin countries Sudan and Ethiopia flared a week earlier over the construction and the effects of a massive dam being built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile, the waterway's main tributary. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...