Sudan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has questioned the authenticity of documents released by WikiLeaks showing that Egypt sent agents to Sudan to plot the assassination of South Sudanese President Salva Kiir.
Ambassador Ali Al Sadiq, spokesman for the Sudanese ministry of foreign affairs, said in a press statement on Sunday that the document is untrue. He said the document aimed at spoiling diplomatic ties between the countries mentioned.
Meanwhile, the South Sudanese government confirmed that it obtained the document, but it expressed reservations about it.
“Thank God because we obtained the document, but we don’t have anything to say,” Ateny Wek Ateny, presidential spokesman, told Radio Tamazuj Sunday.
According to a document allegedly leaked from Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt and Sudan collaborated in a plot to assassinate South Sudan President Salva Kiir after independence in 2011.
The leaked document released on Friday by WikiLeaks, part of the first batch of 500,000 set to be published in the coming weeks, appears to show that the Saudi Foreign Minister, Saud al-Faisal, wrote to the Saudi King, who also serves as the Prime Minister, about the plan to kill Salva Kiir.
According to the document text, Egypt’s intelligence apparatus sent “three of its most dangerous agents” to stay in Garden City area in Khartoum.
“The aim of sending them to Khartoum is to formulate a joint plan with the Sudanese intelligence for the elimination and assassination of Kiir and some of his aides,” Faisal allegedly wrote.