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Egypt has fairly good relations with Sudan, its southern neighbor, although it has a land dispute with Sudan over the Hala ' ib Triangle, a small area of land on the Egypt-Sudan border on the Red Sea coast.

Sudan claims the area.

Egypt's policy on Sudan is that it is in favor of a united Sudan.

As such Egypt was not directly involved in the Sudan Peace Process that was hosted in Kenya under the auspices of IGAD and that gave the peoples of south Sudan the right to secede and form an independent state in 2001 after the long and brutal Sudanese civil war that cumulatively lasted more than 40 years and claimed over 2 million lives.

In ancient times Egypt also had strong trading with Punt. They traded cloth grain copper papyrus and gems for items like myrrh, ebony, ivory, and wild animals.