South Sudan denies receiving weapons from Egypt, calls on Sudan’s leadership to cooperate

South Sudan’s government has denied claims that Egypt supplied its military with arms and ammunition, according to Radio Tamazuj. Sudan’s President Omar Al Bashir had made the claims last week that Egypt provided South Sudan with weapons. Mawien Makol, Spokesman of South Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said “the Republic of South Sudan is disturbed by this unfortunate, unfound (sic) and baseless statement … The ministry, therefore, calls on the leadership of the sisterly country, Sudan, not to forget its responsibility to work with South Sudan in the spirit of the cooperation agreement.”