Both south sudan and chad have requested to join the arab league and the decision will be made by the league through a process in wich south sudan will have an official presence till it becomes an actual member
Egypt is behind this to prevent south sudan from signing the agreement wich calls to give the nile basin countries their equal share from the nile waters
Egypt is training the south sudanese army, gives them scholarship and the two countries have signed a security cooperation agreement wich was a surprise to ethiopia!
More than this, egypt will join the UN peacekeeping force in south sudan!
Imagin if this was somalia!
Jubba needs such a help to prevent the khartoum backed mashaar and his savage white army from reaching jubba!.
Geopolitically khartoum is on the ethiopian side
John grang had a great relationship with cairo and he use to visit there all the 90s againist khartoum but sudan(in the al turabi era) was threatening egypt to recognize jubba while grang was a unionist, recognizing south sudan as a christian country come from the ruling national islamic front so they can implement the sharia in the north.
Though removing al turabi, nothing has changed between cairo and sudan except having diplomatic relations
Asmara is still waiting though some reports are saying that its closer to mashaar however, this depends on how much its egyptian ally can change the things.




